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��Anything Is Possible is not exactly a sequel, but it does feature Lucy Barton as one of the characters. Set in and around Barton’s home town of Amgash, Illinois, this is a shimmering masterpiece of a book. It is a novel told in a series of interconnected stories, each featuring a tale of small-town life that illuminates a more profound truth.”

��“Anything Is Possible’�� confirms Strout as one of our most grace-filled, and graceful, writers.”

��In its entirety, “Anything Is Possible�� is both sweeping in scope and incredibly introspective. That delicate balance is what makes its content so sharp and compulsively readable. ”

��Elizabeth Strout’s new novel, “Anything Is Possible�� is a stunner.....

The book is a sequel, of sorts, to Strout’s novel, “My Name Is Lucy Barton,�� a story of the long shadow cast by a childhood spent in such a milieu.... In her new novel, a score of major and minor characters are drawn in such rich, crisp detail that they sear the heart. ”

��I am a very messy worker �� I push these scenes around our table. It is a big table, and over time I realise which scenes are connected. I have never written anything from beginning to end, not a story or a novel. I just collect different scenes, and the ones that aren’t any good to me, get slipped on to the floor and eventually into the wastebasket.”

Elizabeth Strout, ""
The Guardian, March 4, 2017

��[M]emory is so unstable. We think we remember things, but do we really? And yet even if the memory is not true, it came from somewhere in the character and that is interesting to me.”

Sally Campbell & Martha Greengrass, ""
Waterstones Blog, March 3, 2017

The Malaparte Prize is an Italian literary award recognizing the work of internationally renowned writers who express in their work and lives an aesthetic sensibility allied with the spirit and role of the island of Capri as a center of literary dialogue.

Very honored to be the recipient of the 2016 Malaparte Prize for My Name is Lucy Barton, with thanks to my Italian publisher Einaudi and to president of the jury, Raffaele la Capria.