3.5 rounded up to 4

I really enjoyed a few of these and some of the others felt rushed and incomplete. I typically love a short story that leaves me begging for more, but some of these felt underdeveloped and not ready to be published. Specifically “Lost Purse” and “Train Stories.” Most of these stories build off the characters found in other stories but since some of the stories were underdeveloped, I just didn’t care or have enough reference. I typically enjoy that type of crossover but it didn’t work as well here. But the stories that I did enjoy, I LOVED. Thank you to Netgally, the author, and publisher for the ARC.

This was a lovely read, a selection of short stories that stood alone, but had intertwined character through each one.
Sometimes with short stories it’s hard to get a lot of meaning out of them, but the author managed it so well here, would recommend.

Thanks to NetGalley for the chance to give this a read. Although I found many of the stories similar in their character arcs and themes, I really enjoyed the facts that they were interlinked--that added a lot to the book as a whole.

Thanks to NetGalley and the author for granting me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest rating

We're Not Rich by Sue Murtagh is a collection of interlinked short stories with various recurring characters dealing with a range of life's struggles and situations. I think fans of Elizabeth Strout and Alice Munro would also enjoy this.