body, Ed discovers a small note in Lewis's pocket that he gives to Nina. Instead of the expected farewell, it contains satirical verse that ridicules Lewis's creationist adversaries. Nina spreads Lewis's ashes outside of town, where she experiences a sense of newfound comfort as she rids herself of her deceased husband's remains. "Nettles" "Post and Beam" "What is Remembered" "Queenie" "The Bear Came Over the Mountain": Grant, a retired university professor, and his wife, Fiona, have been together for decades. Their marriage has been mostly happy, although Grant had frequent affairs. But Fiona develops Alzheimer's disease, forcing Grant to commit her to a nursing home. After a thirty-day waiting period, Grant visits Fiona and discovers that she has forgotten him and initiated a relationship with another patient, Aubrey. He wonders whether this affair might not be revenge for his former affairs, but Grant accepts it as unavoidable. Eventually, however, Aubrey's wife Marian withdraws Aubrey from the home. Fiona's condition quickly deteriorates, and Grant confronts Marian, pleading with her to let Aubrey see Fiona. Marian refuses, citing the difficulty of handling Aubrey and her own scant financial resources; Grant also perceives that Marian feels alone without her husband. Disappointed, Grant returns home, but finds that Marian has since invited him to a singles' dance. He realizes that a relationship with Marian will enable him to reunite Aubrey and Fiona, and he accepts. Grant soon visits Fiona to inform her that Aubrey will see her again. Fiona, however, has briefly recovered her memory and recognizes her husband. She says that he could have just forsaken her, to which he responds, "Not a chance." Prior publications "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" was originally published on its own in The New Yorker on 27 December 1999, where it was republished on 21 October 2013. "Queenie" was originally published on its own in London Review of Books on 30 July 1998. Reception In his review for the New York Times, William H. Pritchard drew connections between Munro's work in this collection to fellow North American authors, Eudora Welty and Flannery O' Connor, while maintaining his praise of her way of making "certain fictional places -- and a fictional voice -- unmistakably and distinctively her own." In pointing to the influence of O'Connor on the titular story, "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage," he notes that "if the story were by Flannery O'Connor ... it would