Strout revisits the “pretty Nicely girls” who have become adults: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband, the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life Tommy, the local high school janitor who has his faith tested in an encounter with an emotionally isolated man he has come to help a Vietnam veteran suffering from PTSD who discovers unexpected solace in the company of a lonely innkeeper and, Lucy Barton’s sister, Vicky, who comes to Lucy’s aid, ratifying the deepest bonds of family despite her feelings of abandonment and jealousy. “As I was writing My Name Is Lucy Barton,” Strout says, “it came to me that all the characters Lucy and her mother talked about had their own stories-of course!-and so the unfolding of their lives became tremendously important to me.”
The novel’s small-town characters evoke themes of love, loss, and hope that have drawn millions of readers to Strout’s work. From New York Timesbest-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout comes Anything is Possible a rich work of fiction written in tandem with Strout’s last book, My Name Is Lucy Barton.
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