The book is a page-turner because of her.' -San Francisco Chronicle 'Deeply human. When she's not onstage, we look forward to her return. Kitteridge is a compelling life force, a red-blooded original. Glorious, powerful stuff.' -USA Today 'Funny, wicked and remorseful, Mrs. Strout] constructs her stories with rich irony and moments of genuine surprise and intense emotion. Olive is the axis around which these thirteen complex, relentlessly human narratives spin themselves into Elizabeth Strout's unforgettable novel in stories.' -O: The Oprah Magazine 'Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge. Praise for Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge 'Perceptive, deeply empathetic. With a rare combination of brilliant storytelling, exquisite prose, and remarkable insight into character, The Burgess Boys is Elizabeth Strout's newest and perhaps most astonishing work of literary art. And so the Burgess brothers return to the landscape of their childhood, where the long-buried tensions that have shaped and shadowed their relationship begin to surface in unexpected ways that will change them forever. Her lonely teenage son, Zach, has gotten himself into a world of trouble, and Susan desperately needs their help.

But their long-standing dynamic is upended when their sister, Susan-the Burgess sibling who stayed behind-urgently calls them home. Jim, a sleek, successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a Legal Aid attorney who idolizes Jim, has always taken it in stride. Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could.

The San Francisco Chronicle praised Strout's 'magnificent gift for humanizing characters.' Now the acclaimed author returns with a stunning novel as powerful and moving as any work in contemporary literature. Elizabeth Strout 'animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,' wrote The New Yorker on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge.

The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout