If Strout was once a master at portraying quiet lives in a big way, she now relies on easy plays for emotional connection and tidy resolution.

Early in Tell Me Everything, Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel, the retired teacher Olive Kitteridge reads all of the memoirs by Lucy Barton, a New York City writer who arrived in her coastal ...

1 JAMES (Doubleday, $28). By Percival Everett. A reimagining of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” told from the point of view of Jim as he flees from enslavement. 2 THE GOD OF THE WOODS ...

Elizabeth Strout, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her 2008 novel Olive Kitteridge, has an extraordinary talent for homing in on the dropped stitch in the family fabric, and family is what The Burgess ...

The first novel in what became the five-volume Cazalet Chronicles greets you like a warm hug. Opening in the Sussex countryside in 1937, this resplendent family saga is replete with poignancy, love, ...

I read it straight through till dawn. When I read Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, I stopped after each chapter and wept. Not because it was sad but because it was full of aching truth and ...

Penguin, £9.99 ‘Olive Kitteridge’ by Elizabeth Strout; ‘Happy All the Time’ by Laurie Colwin; ‘Days at the Morisaki Bookshop’ by Satoshi Yagisawa Summer, 1922. Following the Russian ...

My favorite male and female fiction writers are: Charles Frazier (“Cold Mountain”) and Elizabeth Strout (“Olive Kitteridge”). I’ve read all of their books, two and three times.