I read this novel in 2008 when it first came out. I recently picked it up again--in the book exchange in the laundry room of my building, of all places.

A book meets you where you are, and I find these characters finding and moving me anew, in a reflective place, taking measure of the past in all its layered and nuanced complexities.
Olive Kitteridge

Writing simply does not get better than Elizabeth Strout, an author who fulfills fiction's truest gift--to know the soul of another.