Alice means truth.

[abilouise]

Reading Alice Munro: It gives me strength and hope to face the future.  How could Dance of the Happy Shades have been published in 1968?  How have I reached 29 years of age before reading it?  Clearly the world currently holds an untold number of things that will fucking blow my mind just as soon as I discover them.  Just think, these things are just out there waiting.  Your friend says "what?  you mean you don't know about ___ yet?" and everything changes.  These stories are powerful stuff, stories about coming-of-age and girlhood and they encompass perfect timeless moments in prose that would make Hemingway shrug and decide to give up writing permanently in favor of alcoholism.  I am on my second library renewal of Dance of the Happy Shades not because it is hard reading, but because I am savoring this book in small slivers like something expensive to eat.  Some delicate understanding, hard to convey in nonfiction prose is captured in these stories.  I read them and think "yes!  that is what I mean!" as she writes about girlhood and womanhood and states in between in rural 50-years-ago Canada, so far from my experience with fox breeders and housedresses, death and cloakrooms. 
Anyway, thanks Canada!  That's two of my top-5 favorite all-time writers you've produced.  Keep up the good work!