In her luminous and long-awaited new novel, bestselling author
Elizabeth Strout welcomes readers back to the archetypal, lovely
landscape of northern New England, where the events of her first
novel, Amy and Isabelle, unfolded. In the late 1950s, in the small
town of West Annett, Maine, a minister struggles to regain his
calling, his family, and his happiness in the wake of profound
loss. At the same time, the community he has served so
charismatically must come to terms with its own strengths and
failings-faith and hypocrisy, loyalty and abandonment-when a dark
secret is revealed.
Tyler Caskey has come to love West Annett, "just up the road" from
where he was born. The short, brilliant summers and the sharp,
piercing winters fill him with awe-as does his congregation, full
of good people who seek his guidance and listen earnestly as he
preaches. But after suffering a terrible loss, Tyler finds it hard
to return to himself as he once was. He hasn't had The Feeling-that
God is all around him, in the beauty of the world-for quite some
time. He struggles to find the right words in his sermons and in
his conversations with those facing crises of their own, and to
bring his five-year-old daughter, Katherine, out of the silence she
has observed in the wake of the family's tragedy.
A congregation that had once been patient and kind during Tyler's
grief now questions his leadership and propriety. In the kitchens,
classrooms, offices, and stores of the village, anger and gossip
have started to swirl. And in Tyler's darkest hour, a startling
discovery will test his congregation's humanity-and his own will to
endure the kinds of trials that sooner or later test us all.
In prose incandescent and artful, Elizabeth Strout draws readers
into the details of ordinary life in a way that makes it
extraordinary. All is considered-life, love, God, and
community-within these pages, and all is made new by this writer's
boundless compassion and graceful prose.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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