Delighted to find ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE on Barack Obama's list of favorite books of 2017.
Barack Obama Facebook Post Facebook, December 31, 2017
Publisher's Weekly: Best Books 2017: Fiction
Nice to see ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE on Publishers Weekly's Best Books 2017: Fiction list.
“In this excellent, emotionally wrenching novel in stories, the residents of Amgash, Ill., and the surrounding communities, who were offstage characters in My Name Is Lucy Barton, are given voice. ”
"Best Books 2017: Fiction" Publisher's Weekly, November 1, 2017
NY Times: 100 Notable Books of 2017
Glad to see ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE on the New York Times' list of 100 Notable Books of 2017.
100 Notable Books of 2017 New York Times, November 22, 2017
Booth: A Conversation with Elizabeth Strout
“I really believe in the sentence. Every sentence has to have some heartbeat of life to it.”
"A Conversation with Elizabeth Strout" Samantha Vorwald, Booth: A Journal, September 1, 2017
How do we become aware of class in America?
“Always, I have wondered: What does it feel like to be another person? This question is the furnace behind my work. But when you write about people, you are writing about class. Time and place in history determine a great deal, and if you consider place to be a place in society, then that shapes a life, as well.”
How do we become aware of class in America? Elizabeth Strout, Washington Post, August 28, 2017