Anything Is Possible: A Novel

Anything Is Possible: A Novel

<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout.</b><br /><br /><b><b><b>Winner of The Story Prize • </b>A <i>Washington Post</i> and <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book • One of <i>USA Today</i>’s top 10 books of the year<br /></b></b><br />Recalling <i>Olive Kitteridge</i> in its richness, structure, and complexity, <i>Anything Is Possible</i> explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others.<br /><br /> Here are<i> </i>two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother’s happiness in a foreign country; and the adult Lucy Barton (the heroine of <i>My Name Is Lucy Barton,</i> the author’s celebrated <i>New York Times </i>bestseller) returns to visit her siblings after seventeen years of absence.<br /><br /> Reverberating with the deep bonds of family, and the hope that comes with reconciliation, <i>Anything Is Possible</i> again underscores Elizabeth Strout’s place as one of America’s most respected and cherished authors.<br /><br /><b>Praise for <i>Anything Is Possible</i></b><br /><br />“When Elizabeth Strout is on her game, is there anybody better? . . . This is a generous, wry book about everyday lives, and Strout crawls so far inside her characters you feel you inhabit them. . . . This is a book that earns its title. Try reading it without tears, or wonder.”<b>—<i>USA Today </i>(four stars)</b><br /><br /> “Readers who loved <i>My Name Is Lucy </i>Barton . . . are in for a real treat. . . . Strout is a master of the story cycle form. . . .  She paints cumulative portraits of the heartache and soul of small-town America by giving each of her characters a turn under her sympathetic spotlight.”<b>—NPR</b><br /><br /> “These stories return Strout to the core of what she does more magnanimously than anyone else.”<b>—<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br /><br /> “In this wise and accomplished book, pain and healing exist in perpetual dependence, like feuding siblings.”<b>—<i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b>