NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and
loss in this new work of fiction by #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth
Strout. Winner of The Story Prize • A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book • One of
USA Today's 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 are two 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 mother's happiness in a foreign country and the adult Lucy Barton
(the heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton the author's 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 Strout's place as one of America's most respected and cherished authors.
Praise for Anything Is Possible When Elizabeth Strout is on her game is there anybody better?
. . . This is a generous wry book about everyday lives and Strout crawls so far inside her
characters you feel you inhabit them. . . . This is a book that earns its title. Try reading it
without tears or wonder.-USA Today (four stars) Readers who loved My Name Is Lucy Barton . . .
are in for a real treat. . . . Strout is a master of the story cycle form. . . . She paints
cumulative portraits of the heartache and soul of small-town America by giving each of her
characters a turn under her sympathetic spotlight.-NPR These stories return Strout to the core
of what she does more magnanimously than anyone else.-The Washington Post In this wise and
accomplished book pain and healing exist in perpetual dependence like feuding siblings.-The
Wall Street Journal
