{"id":6903,"date":"2022-04-08T07:02:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T11:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/?p=6903"},"modified":"2022-04-08T07:02:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T11:02:22","slug":"oh-william-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2022\/04\/oh-william-a-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh William!: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Elizabeth Strout\u2014<\/b>Random House, 2021 <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Strout is a favorite of ours. We loved <\/span>Olive Kitteridge<\/span><\/i> (2008) and <\/span>My Name is Lucy Barton <\/span><\/i>(2016); now we rejoin Lucy in <\/span>Oh William!<\/span><\/i>. Newly widowed and a successful writer in her 60s, Lucy has retained an amicable relationship with her first husband, the father of her two daughters. She accepts him now, warts and all, and the warts are not insignificant. But despite Lucy\u2019s investigative nature, she\u2019s yet to fully understand what makes WIlliam tick. The story develops from a newlyweds\u2019 love through Lucy and WIlliam\u2019s divorce over his serial philandering, to Lucy\u2019s satisfying marriage to her second husband, while WIlliam is married and divorced twice more. Yet it\u2019s Lucy whom William asks to join him on a road trip to Maine to investigate his vague ancestry. On the road together, both feeling vulnerable and alone, they have a chance to understand each other on new levels. Their journey is the heart of the novel\u2014a story of regret, reflection, revelation of some surprising family secrets and, ultimately, the way love matures over time.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth Strout is a favorite of ours. We loved <\/span>Olive Kitteridge<\/span><\/i> (2008) and <\/span>My Name is Lucy Barton <\/span><\/i>(2016); now we rejoin Lucy in <\/span>Oh William!<\/span><\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Read more Oh William!: A Novel<\/span> ›<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

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