With her 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 our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, “Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.”
With her 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 our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, “Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.”
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Explorations of small-town domestic life and interconnected community narratives form a significant portion of contemporary American literary fiction, best exemplified by the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Olive Kitteridge. Author Elizabeth Strout builds character-driven fiction that examines secrecy, grief, and quiet human resilience across coastal Maine and the American Midwest.
Through recurring figures who move across multiple books, such as in Tell Me Everything, Strout crafts an expansive fictional geography where central characters in one narrative reappear as background figures in another, capturing the intricate web of small-town relationships.
Born in Portland, Maine, on January 6, 1956, Strout grew up in small towns across Maine and New Hampshire. Encouraged by her mother, a teacher, she began keeping notebooks at a young age to record everyday observations. She attended Bates College, earning a bachelor's degree in 1977, and later received a law degree from Syracuse University in 1982. Before establishing herself full-time as a writer, she worked as a waitress, secretary, house cleaner, and legal assistant for an elderly abuse project, while also teaching English and literature at Manhattan College, The New School, and Bard College.
Strout spent years facing rejections before publishing her debut novel, Amy and Isabelle, in 1998 at age 42. Her literary breakthrough arrived ten years later with Olive Kitteridge (2008), a novel in stories centered on an abrasive yet empathetic retired schoolteacher in coastal Maine, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Subsequent releases, including Abide with Me (2006), The Burgess Boys (2013), My Name Is Lucy Barton (2016), and Anything Is Possible (2017), extended her study of family conflict and small-town dynamics.
Strout's writing style relies on precise observational detail, understated prose, and an unwavering commitment to character over high-concept plot. She frequently sets her stories in fictional small communities such as Shirley Falls, Maine, using rural settings to explore isolation, social class, and unspoken emotional trauma. Rather than relying on melodrama, her narratives linger on subtle moments of connection, quiet regret, and forgiveness between flawed characters.
2 books in catalog
Explorations of small-town domestic life and interconnected community narratives form a significant portion of contemporary American literary fiction, best exemplified by the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Olive Kitteridge. Author Elizabeth Strout builds character-driven fiction that examines secrecy, grief, and quiet human resilience across coastal Maine and the American Midwest.
Through recurring figures who move across multiple books, such as in Tell Me Everything, Strout crafts an expansive fictional geography where central characters in one narrative reappear as background figures in another, capturing the intricate web of small-town relationships.
Born in Portland, Maine, on January 6, 1956, Strout grew up in small towns across Maine and New Hampshire. Encouraged by her mother, a teacher, she began keeping notebooks at a young age to record everyday observations. She attended Bates College, earning a bachelor's degree in 1977, and later received a law degree from Syracuse University in 1982. Before establishing herself full-time as a writer, she worked as a waitress, secretary, house cleaner, and legal assistant for an elderly abuse project, while also teaching English and literature at Manhattan College, The New School, and Bard College.
Strout spent years facing rejections before publishing her debut novel, Amy and Isabelle, in 1998 at age 42. Her literary breakthrough arrived ten years later with Olive Kitteridge (2008), a novel in stories centered on an abrasive yet empathetic retired schoolteacher in coastal Maine, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Subsequent releases, including Abide with Me (2006), The Burgess Boys (2013), My Name Is Lucy Barton (2016), and Anything Is Possible (2017), extended her study of family conflict and small-town dynamics.
Strout's writing style relies on precise observational detail, understated prose, and an unwavering commitment to character over high-concept plot. She frequently sets her stories in fictional small communities such as Shirley Falls, Maine, using rural settings to explore isolation, social class, and unspoken emotional trauma. Rather than relying on melodrama, her narratives linger on subtle moments of connection, quiet regret, and forgiveness between flawed characters.
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