4,5/5 
 I realize Strout won the Pulitzer, yet still I find her work to be underappreciated. 
 I've recently read lots of highly regarded books by famous authors who don't seem to achieve the same depth, realism, subtile humor, sublime dialogues AND memorable, real characters in 500 pages than Strout in an average of 25 pages in each and every short story in this collection. 
 Advice: because of the ingeniously intertwining of all of the people involved in these seperate short stories, write down the page of each and every time you encounter a new name. If you have the ebook: use the search button while marking the names. The reward will be great!