{"product_id":"2940169146851","title":"Anything Is Possible","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Recalling \u003ci\u003eOlive Kitteridge\u003c\/i\u003e in its richness, structure, and complexity, \u003ci\u003eAnything Is Possible\u003c\/i\u003e explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Here are\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003etwo sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother's happiness in a foreign country; and the adult Lucy Barton (the heroine of \u003ci\u003eMy Name Is Lucy Barton,\u003c\/i\u003e the author's celebrated \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller) returns to visit her siblings after seventeen years of absence. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Reverberating with the deep bonds of family, and the hope that comes with reconciliation, \u003ci\u003eAnything Is Possible\u003c\/i\u003e again underscores Elizabeth Strout's place as one of America's most respected and cherished authors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Elizabeth Strout's \u003ci\u003eMy Name Is Lucy Barton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"There is not a scintilla of sentimentality in this exquisite novel. Instead, in its careful words and vibrating silences, \u003ci\u003eMy Name Is Lucy Barton\u003c\/i\u003e offers us a rare wealth of emotion, from darkest suffering to . . . simple joy.\"\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Spectacular . . . \u003ci\u003eMy Name Is Lucy Barton\u003c\/i\u003e is smart and cagey in every way. It is both a book of withholdings and a book of great openness and wisdom. . . . [Strout] is in supreme and magnificent command of this novel at all times.\"\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eMy Name Is Lucy Barton\u003c\/i\u003e is a short novel about love, particularly the complicated love between mothers and daughters, but also simpler, more sudden bonds. . . . It evokes these connections in a style so spare, so pure and so profound the book almost seems to be a kind of scripture or sutra, if a very down-to-earth and unpretentious one.\"\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A quiet, sublimely merciful contemporary novel about love, yearning, and resilience in a family damaged beyond words.\"\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Sensitive, deceptively simple . . . It is Lucy's gentle honesty, complex relationship with her husband, and nuanced response to her mother's shortcomings that make this novel so subtly powerful. . . . \u003ci\u003eMy Name Is Lucy Barton\u003c\/i\u003e-like all of Strout's fiction-is more complex than it first appears, and all the more emotionally persuasive for it.\"\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101768433904,"sku":"2940169146851","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169146851_p0.jpg?v=1763673798","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169146851","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}