A review by mdbow22
The Best American Short Stories 2013 by Elizabeth Strout, Heidi Pitlor

3.0

All the stories were published in 2012. I'm sure that was a great year for short fiction, but Elizabeth Strout couldn't find the truly great stories out of the hundreds she must have looked at. Many of the stories were enjoyable while reading them, but once they ended they got lost. Before putting the book down, I went through the table of contents again, and for many of the stories, I looked at the title wondering, "Which one was that again?" I had to go the story's first page to rediscover it, as if I had read it twenty years ago instead of yesterday.