Alice Munro - Too Much Happiness / Demasiada felicidad

Alice Munro, genius of the short form, does it again with Too Much Happiness

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/books/review/Cohen-t.html?pagewanted=all

From “Face”:

‘Something happened here. In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

From “Child’s Play”:

‘I suppose I hated her as some people hate snakes or caterpillars or mice or slugs. For no decent reason. Not for any certain harm she could do but for the way she could disturb your innards and make you sick of your life.

From “Too Much Happiness”:

“‘Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind….When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.’”

The title story is placed at the end of the collection. It concerns one Sophia Kovalevsky, whom Wikipedia describes as “the first major Russian female mathematician.”