Elizabeth Strout’s stories triumph in the messy realities of human lives
Strout proves herself an adept chronicler of the everyday miseries that sometimes add up to a life not so badly lived
FICTION: Anything Is Possible, By Elizabeth Strout, Viking, €17
The follow-up to last year’s My Name Is Lucy Barton sees Elizabeth Strout revisiting some of the characters that made that Man Booker longlisted novel so memorable, over nine interlinking short stories set in and around the blue collar bastion that is Amgash, Illinois, a town where “a complaining woman was like pushing dirt beneath the fingernails of God”.
These tales weave together like ...
