Some People Are Crazy by Alice Munro

A collection of sharply observed short stories set mostly in small-town Ontario, portraying ordinary people—often women—whose lives are shaped by longing, secrecy, chance encounters and the stubborn hold of the past; with keen psychological insight and a blend of irony and compassion, the stories trace how seemingly small choices and random events produce unexpected consequences, exposing quiet violences, enduring loyalties, shifting moralities and the persistent ache of memory and desire.