By Elizabeth Strout...LOVED it. Went to hear Nancy Pearl give a talk on book talks...and several people recommended it. It is the Pulitzer Prize winner...and so, I purchased it and have been reading it over the last month and a half or so. I was immediately hooked because it is similar to William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Each chapter is told from the point of view of another character...which is cool! And..their lives do intertwine...which is also great. It was the perfect book to read in parts...a chapter at a time...because once the chapter was over...that part of the story was over. I had better not say much else about this...but while I am here and mentioning Pulitzer Prize winners...I will list the ones I have read and thoroughly enjoyed. As it turns out these weren't winners without reason...all were well written, interesting and totally suck you in!
1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway
1961 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison
1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1994 The Shipping News by E Annie Proulx
1998 American Pastorial by Philip Roth
1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham
2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2006 March by Geraldine Brooks
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