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Anything Is Possible

by Elizabeth Strout

Lives connected by family and return

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Winner of The Story Prize

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  • Bestseller

    New York Times bestseller

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  • Editorial selection

    One of Barack Obama's favorite books of the year

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Lives connected by family and return

Set among small-town characters, Elizabeth Strout’s novel brings together intimate stories of people negotiating love, loss, self-understanding, and their ties to others. Its episodes include sisters whose choices lead them along sharply different paths, a daughter reckoning with her relationship to her mother, and Lucy Barton’s return to her siblings after seventeen years away. These separate dramas are linked by family bonds and the possibility of reconciliation, giving the book a portrait-like view of how private lives intersect.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in linked stories centered on small-town lives and family relationships.
  • For readers seeking fiction about estrangement, self-understanding, and reconciliation.

Themes

Family bonds and estrangementLove and lossSelf-understandingReconciliation

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Book overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this "compulsively readable" (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton

"This book, this writer, are magnificent."--Ann Patchett


WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE - ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, People, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, The Seattle Times, Esquire, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly

In Anything Is Possible, Elizabeth Strout explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are 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. A grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother's happiness in a foreign country. And Lucy Barton returns to visit her siblings after seventeen years of absence.

Reverberating with the deep bonds of family, and the hope that comes with reconciliation, Anything Is Possible "confirms Strout as one of our most grace-filled, and graceful, writers" (The Boston Globe).
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