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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton comes a “deeply moving” (The Washington Post) novel that “confirms Strout as the possessor of an irresistibly companionable, peculiarly American voice” (The Atlantic Monthly). “Superb . . . a shimmering tale of loss, faith, and human fallibility.”—O: The Oprah Magazine In the late 1950s, in a small New England town, Reverend Tyler Caskey has suffered a terrible loss and finds it hard to be the person he once was. He struggles to find the right words in his sermons and in his conversations with those facing crises of their own, and to bring his five-year-old daughter, Katherine, out of the silence she has observed in the wake of the family’s tragedy. Tyler’s usually patient and kind congregation now questions his leadership and propriety, and accusations are born out of anger and gossip. Then, in Tyler’s darkest hour, a startling discovery will test his parish’s humanity—and his own will to endure the trials that sooner or later test us all.

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Strout's greatly anticipated second novel . . . is an answered prayer. <b>--<i>Vanity Fair</i> </b> Superb . . . a shimmering tale of loss, faith, and human fallibility . . . You feel yourself in the hands of a master storyteller. <b>--<i>O: The Oprah Magazine</i></b> Deeply moving . . . In one beautiful page after another, Strout captures the mysterious combinations of hope and sorrow. She sees all these wounded people with heartbreaking clarity, but she has managed to write a story that cradles them in understanding and that, somehow, seems like a foretaste of salvation. <b>--<i>The Washington Post</i></b> <i> </i> This lovely second novel confirms Strout as the possessor of an irresistibly companionable, peculiarly American voice: folksy, poetic, but always as precise as a shadow on a brilliant winter day. <b>--<i>The Atlantic Monthly</i></b> <i> </i> Graceful and moving . . . The pacing of Strout's deeply felt fiction about the distance between parents and children gives her work an addictive quality. <b>--<i>People </i>(four stars)</b> <i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>

Praise for Amy and Isabelle <br> Stunning . . . heartbreaking . . . Every once in a long while, a novel comes along that plunges deep into your psyche, leaving you breathless. <br>- San Francisco Chronicle <br> One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place. <br>- The New York Times Book Review <br> A novel of shining integrity and humor, about the bravery and hard choices of what is called ordinary life. <br>- Alice Munro <br> Excellent . . . unflaggingly engaging . . . What a pleasure to gain entry into the world of this book. <br>- The New Yorker <p> From the Hardcover edition.

Praise for Amy and Isabelle<br><br> Stunning . . . heartbreaking . . . Every once in a long while, a novel comes along that plunges deep into your psyche, leaving you breathless. <br>-San Francisco Chronicle<br><br> One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place. <br>-The New York Times Book Review<br><br> A novel of shining integrity and humor, about the bravery and hard choices of what is called ordinary life. <br>-Alice Munro<br><br> Excellent . . . unflaggingly engaging . . . What a pleasure to gain entry into the world of this book. <br>-The New Yorker<br><br><br> From the Hardcover edition.

“Strout’s greatly anticipated second novel . . . is an answered prayer.”—Vanity Fair   “Superb . . . a shimmering tale of loss, faith, and human fallibility . . . You feel yourself in the hands of a master storyteller.”—O: The Oprah Magazine   “Deeply moving . . . In one beautiful page after another, Strout captures the mysterious combinations of hope and sorrow. She sees all these wounded people with heartbreaking clarity, but she has managed to write a story that cradles them in understanding and that, somehow, seems like a foretaste of salvation.”—The Washington Post   “This lovely second novel confirms Strout as the possessor of an irresistibly companionable, peculiarly American voice: folksy, poetic, but always as precise as a shadow on a brilliant winter day.”—The Atlantic Monthly   “Graceful and moving . . . The pacing of Strout’s deeply felt fiction about the distance between parents and children gives her work an addictive quality.”—People (four stars)

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Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Olive, Again, an Oprah’s Book Club pick; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name is Lucy Barton, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; The Burgess Boys, named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and NPR; Abide with Me, a national bestseller; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the International Dublin Literary Award, and the Orange Prize. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine. Elizabeth Strout lives in New York City.

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