Praise for Oh William!

“Loneliness and betrayal, themes to which the Pulitzer Prize?winning Strout has returned throughout her career, are ever present in this illuminating character-driven saga. . . . Strout’s characters teem with angst and emotion, all of which [she] handles with a mastery of restraint and often in spare, true sentences. . . . It’s not for nothing that Strout has been compared to Hemingway. In some ways, she betters him.”?Publishers Weekly (starred review)



Praise for Elizabeth Strout

“[Strout] illuminates both what people understand about others and what they understand about themselves.”?The New York Times Book Review?

“Strout managed to make me love this strange woman I’d never met, who I knew nothing about. What a terrific writer she is.”?Zadie Smith?

“Strout animates the ordinary with an astonishing force. . . . [She] makes us experience not only the terrors of change but also the terrifying hope that change can bring: she plunges us into these churning waters and we come up gasping for air.”?The New Yorker?

“Writing of this quality comes from a commitment to listening, from a perfect attunement to the human condition, from an attention to reality so exact that it goes beyond a skill and becomes a virtue.”?Hilary Mantel

“Reading an Elizabeth Strout novel is like peering into your neighbor’s windows. . . . There is a nuanced tension in the novel, evoked by beautiful and detailed writing. Strout’s manifestations of?envy, pride, guilt, selflessness, bigotry and love are subtle and spot-on.”?Minneapolis Star Tribune?

“Strout is a brilliant chronicler of the ambiguity and delicacy of the human condition.”?The Guardian