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“Every Elizabeth Strout book introduces to characters I love. When she reintroduced many of those characters again in Tell Me Everything I welcomed them into my world - and listened as Strout seamlessly allowed them to tell stories of amazing and resilient people. Or help re-frame another's story for the best outcome. She notes that memory is tricky, but there is nothing tricky in knowing I will remember this novel for a very long time. ”
— Sarah • Watermark Books
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“Elizabeth Strout's fictional characters - Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, and Bob Burgess, among others - are my friends for life. They inhabit my dreams occasionally, remind me that we all have childhood wounds that impact our adulthood, and always show me that good writing is my lifeline to literature and life. It's wonderful to catch up with old friends and find they have changed and see the world differently than the last time I visited with them. They tell their stories to one another and grapple with the 'big' questions of love, loneliness, loss, children, and marriage, learning to listen attentively and carefully to one another. A guide to a well-lived life as far as I'm concerned. ”
— Gayle • Changing Hands
Summary
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.
With her “extraordinary capacity for radical empathy” (The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?”
It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, is finally introduced to the iconic Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive’s apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known—“unrecorded lives,” Olive calls them—reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning.
Brimming with empathy and pathos, Tell Me Everything is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which we our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, “Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.”
Reviews
Praise for Elizabeth Strout“No novelist working today has [Elizabeth] Strout’s extraordinary capacity for radical empathy, for seeing the essence of people beyond reductive categories, for uniting us without sentimentality.”—The Boston Globe
“Strout’s understanding of the human condition is capacious.”—NPR
“One proof of Elizabeth Strout’s greatness is the sleight of hand with which she injects sneaky subterranean power into seemingly transparent prose. Strout works in the realm of everyday speech, conjuring repetitions, gaps and awkwardness with plain language and forthright diction, yet at the same time unleashing a tidal urgency that seems to come out of nowhere even as it operates in plain sight.”—The New York Times Book Review
“There is an insistent generosity in Strout’s books, and a restraint that obscures the complexity of their construction.”—The Washington Post
“Strout’s prose propels the story forward with moments of startlingly poetic clarity.”—The New Yorker
“The darkness of Strout’s vision is leavened by her belief in moments of grace, which may arrive in a slant of light, a sudden insight, or (best of all) a connection to another human being.”—Chicago Tribune
“With extraordinary economy of prose—few writers can pack so much emotion, so much detail into a single paragraph—Strout immerses us in the lives of her characters, each so authentically drawn as to be deserving of an entire novel themselves.”—The Guardian Expand reviews