Elizabeth Strout has departed from Olive Kittredge, Lucy Barton and Burgess Boys; she has even departed from Maine. Her newest, THE THINGS WE NEVER SAY, introduces us to Artie Dam, a teacher in Massachusetts who is just as full of depth, pain and laughter as any character Strout has ever written. Haunted by the divisiveness that has beset our nation, he searches for meaning in his family and his work, and is upended by a secret he never saw coming. A wonderful book full of Strout’s amazing ability to explore the follies and foibles of the human mind, THE THINGS WE NEVER SAY will charm you and such you in. Join us for a conversation about why she chose to depart from her already beloved characters to explore someone new.

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The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
Lucy By the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
Oh William! By Elizabeth Strout
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kittredge by Elizabeth Strout
Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout
Winter by Elizabeth Strout
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The News from Dublin by Colm Toibin
Love and Summer by William Trevor

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