A very quick read (listen? Audiobook!) but I loved the heartfelt narration. For a short read, there is a lot to unpack and even decipher (in a good way). I was most taken by Strout's themes on judgment. There's a lot of emotional impact, too. The mother-daughter relationship that is the focus of the novel is strange; I understand it to an extent but I had many more questions. In the end, I wanted to spend more time with Lucy...I wanted her to tell me more. But it was satisfying.