Anything Is Possible

**From #1 *New York Times* bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout comes a brilliant latticework of fiction that recalls *Olive Kitteridge* in its richness, structure, and complexity. Written in tandem with *My Name Is Lucy Barton* and drawing on the small-town characters evoked there, these pages reverberate with the themes of love, loss, and hope that have drawn millions of readers to Strout's work.** "As I was writing *My Name Is Lucy Barton,* " Strout says, "it came to me that all the characters Lucy and her mother talked about had their own stories--of course!--and so the unfolding of their lives became tremendously important to me." Here, among others, are the "Pretty Nicely Girls," now adults: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband, the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. Tommy, the janitor at the local high school, has his faith tested in an encounter with an emotionally...