First Saturday Book Group for May: Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

On the first Saturday in May, we will discuss *Tell me Everything* by Elizabeth Strout. We will be meeting at Crepevine. Please check back here in case we change the location, and check your email for updates. Make sure you can receive email from this Meetup group! \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- Info from Goodreads: Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Readers' Favorite Fiction (2024) It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives nearby in a house next to the sea. Together, Lucy and Bob talk about their lives, their hopes and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, befriends one of Crosby’s longest inhabitants, Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive’s apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known – “unrecorded lives,” Olive calls them – reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning. Brimming with empathy and pathos, *Tell Me Everything* is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, “Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.”