A review by wordcommando
The State We're In: Maine Stories by Ann Beattie

4.0

Ann's greatest strength as a short story writer are her endings--which are very hard to pull off correctly in that form. Sometimes I got a little confused and had to go back and re-read certain sections; these stories are somewhat linked, so if you weren't all that excited about a couple of characters, you had to endure several stories about them. That said, still a solid collection.