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Tell Me Everything

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Tell Me Everything

By: Elizabeth Strout
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a “stunner” (People) of a novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.

“Tell Me Everything hits like a bucolic fable. . . . A novel of moods, how they govern our personal lives and public spaces, reflected in Strout’s shimmering technique.”—The Washington Post

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, Vogue, Parade

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.” Literary Fiction Genre Fiction Sagas Friendship
Interwoven Stories • Character Development • Perfect Tone • Beautiful Writing • Poignant Storytelling • Authentic Voice

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Characters to bring home- a touch of mystery, the tale is vivid and leaves me feeling and thinking

Always surprising and somehow real

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Elizabeth Strout has worked her magic once again through telling slow, interwoven stories about everyday people living lives that reveal fundamental truths of humanity. This immensely brilliant tale involves familiar and beloved characters who live in various towns in rural Maine. Bob Burgess, Lucy Barton, Olive Kittridge, and others share their day-to-day wonder, struggles, heartbreaks, and desires - every single thing it means to be alive. The result is deeply moving and feels like gold. She catches the reader off guard with her unique signature pacing and respect for her characters. I am profoundly enriched every time I read one of her brilliant novels.

Extraordinary.

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The story, though not conventionally dramatic, is compelling and personal. I loved it in ways I didn’t expect.

Deep and fabulous.

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Raw honesty, realism, compassion, suspense, reflection and wisdom—this book is an experience worth having…

Storytelling At Its Best

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I love her books and characters so very much that I feel lonely for them as soon as I finish one. I reread them all, which is wonderful, but I crave more Elizabeth Strout! Nothing is as wonderful as discovering these people and their singular souls! Please, please Elizabeth, write more, quickly!!

Elizabeth Strout is magic!

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