{"id":8082,"date":"2025-05-20T11:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T15:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/?p=8082"},"modified":"2025-05-20T11:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T15:20:22","slug":"tell-me-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2025\/05\/tell-me-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Me Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Elizabeth Strout \u2013 <\/b>Random House<\/i><\/b>, <\/b>2024<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

There are some authors whose work you can’t help but return to, and Elizabeth Strout is one of them. <\/span>Tell Me Everything <\/span><\/i>is the fifth in a series set in Crosby, ME, home to characters we know and love. Former teacher Olive Kitteridge invites Lucy Barton, an acclaimed writer living in Crosby since COVID, to flesh out a potential storyline in which more of the town\u2019s history is revealed. Retired attorney Bob Burgess takes on the murder case of a young man accused of killing his mother. Bob has a sense of an unfinished life, which he talks about on his regular walks with Lucy\u2014he struggles with his unspoken love for Lucy and laments the challenges of marriage in later life. Notably aloof and snarky, Olive shows a softer side in this novel, impressing old acquaintances who judged her harshly\u2014and she may hold the key to solving the murder.<\/span><\/p>\n

What makes this novel remarkable is how we see the townspeople aging, how people have changed and how they\u2019ve stayed the same. Ultimately, <\/span>Tell Me Everything<\/span><\/i> is about the search for meaning and connection, and the things people choose to conceal or reveal about themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are some authors whose work you can’t help but return to, and Elizabeth Strout is one of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more Tell Me Everything<\/span> ›<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

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