Bargain @ $2.99 for Canadians, from Penguin Canada (not couponable), probably just for today (Oct 18th) as the Kobo Deal of the Day (may end up being price-matched elsewhere, or not*):
Lives of Girls and Women by Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author Alice Munro (
Wikipedia), a literary fiction coming-of-age novel-length short story cycle originally out in 1971, which happens to have its own
Wikipedia entry.
Lives of Girls and Women is the intensely readable, touching, and very funny story of Del Jordan, a young woman who journeys from the carelessness of childhood through an uneasy adolescence in search of love and sexual experience.
As Del dreams of becoming famous, suffers embarrassment about her mother, endures the humiliation of her body's insistent desires, and tries desperately to fall in love, she grapples with the crises that mark the passage to womanhood.
* Normally, when Penguin/Random House puts Munro's books on sale, they only go to $4.99 and occasionally Kobo discounts them further as the Daily Deal which Amazon apparently doesn't bother to price-match all the way down to $2.99 (they didn't for the last Munro story collection which got offered up).