Tell Me Everything (Amgash #5)

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a “generous, compassionate novel” ( San Francisco Chronicle ) about new friendships, old loves, & the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.

“A rich tapestry, intricately wrought yet effortlessly realized, both suspenseful & meditative.”— The Boston Globe **

With her remarkable insight into the human condition & silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, & to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, & more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love & yet choose to be apart, & grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?”

It’s autumn in Maine, & 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 & 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 & Bob go on walks & talk about their lives, their fears & regrets, & 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 & 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.”