Tell Me Everything: Oprah’s Book Club A Novel

Oprah’s Book Club Pick • New York Times Bestseller • Pulitzer Prize–winning author

Elizabeth Strout returns to the coastal Maine town that has captured readers’ hearts, weaving together the lives of Lucy Barton, the indomitable Olive Kitteridge, and lawyer Bob Burgess in a story that asks the most essential question: What gives our lives meaning?

It’s autumn in Crosby, Maine—the kind of season when the light slants golden across the water and the air carries both salt and secrets. Bob Burgess finds himself defending a man accused of murder while simultaneously falling into an unexpected, soul-sustaining friendship with writer Lucy Barton. Together, they walk the coastal paths, sharing stories and silences that contain multitudes. When Lucy finally meets the legendary Olive Kitteridge, now residing in a retirement community, the two women spend afternoons reanimating the “unrecorded lives” of people they’ve known, discovering that storytelling itself is an act of love.

People calls it a “stunner,” while The Washington Post praises Strout’s “shimmering technique” in this novel of moods and human connection. Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and named a best book of the year by Time, NPR, and Vogue, Tell Me Everything is Strout at her finest—brimming with empathy, quietly devastating, and ultimately affirming that love, in all its forms, is what keeps us afloat.

Perfect for readers who savor literary fiction that lingers long after the final page.

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