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Tell Me Everything
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Overview
Elizabeth Strout’s Tell Me Everything was published by Random House in 2024. Her 10th novel, Tell Me Everything is a New York Times bestseller and Oprah Book Club pick. Strout won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for Olive Kitteridge, published in 2008. Tell Me Everything is the fifth book in the Amgash series, in which Strout further develops the world of fictional Crosby, Maine and its residents. Tell Me Everything probes the themes of The Importance of Perspective in Storytelling, The Impact of the Past on the Present, and The Ebb and Flow of True Connection.
This guide refers to the 2024 Kindle edition of the novel, published by Random House.
Content Warning: The source text contains depictions of suicide and suicidal ideation, child sexual assault, abuse, rape, and alcohol use disorder.
Plot Summary
Bob Burgess and his wife, Margaret Estaver, live in the center of the small town of Crosby, Maine. Bob is a semi-retired lawyer, and Margaret is a Unitarian minister. They are well-liked and respected.
Lucy Barton and her husband, William, moved to Crosby from New York City at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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