Anything Is Possible: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this compulsively readable (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout This book, this writer, are magnificent.Ann Patchett Winner of The Story Prize A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book One of USA Todays top 10 books of the year Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here aretwo sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mothers happiness in a foreign country; and the adult Lucy Barton (the heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton, the authors celebrated New York Times bestseller) returns to visit her siblings after seventeen years of absence. Reverberating with the deep bonds of family, and the hope that comes with reconciliation, Anything Is Possible again underscores Elizabeth Strouts place as one of Americas most respected and cherished authors.