Summary
Elizabeth Strout: Tell Me Everything
In a small town in Maine, attorney Bob Burgess represents a reclusive man who the entire town has found guilty of murdering his own mother, while developing a deep friendship with writer Lucy Burton. During long walks, they talk about their lives, fears and regrets, missed opportunities and everything that could have been. Meanwhile, Lucy forms an unlikely friendship with ninety-year-old Olive Kitteridge, who lives in a nursing home. The two make a deal: they will tell each other stories about the unrecorded lives of people they knew, about family secrets, quiet heroism and all those small moments that make up the core of human existence. In this disarmingly honest and compassionate novel *Tell Me Everything*, Elizabeth Strout masterfully shows how behind every closed door there is a story worthy of attention, reminding us that listening carefully to another human being may be the greatest act of love we can give in today's world.
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