Left Bank Books Event – Elizabeth Strout & Lily King

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout celebrates the recent release of her tenth novel, Tell Me Everything, in which she returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and others—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?”

Tell Me Everything is a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world. When Olive asks Lucy the point of writing stories, she answers, “People and the lives they lead. That’s the point.”

As the 2022 Booker Prize judges wrote, “No-one writes interior life as Strout does. This is meticulous observed writing, full of probing psychological insight. Lucy Barton is one of literature’s immortal characters – brittle, damaged, unravelling, vulnerable and most of all, ordinary, like us all.”