In conversation with Laura Kovacs

Possessed of “a magnificent gift for humanizing characters,” (San Francisco Chronicle), Elizabeth Strout won the Pulitzer Prize for the 2008 bestseller Olive Kitteridge, a linked collection of narratives about a woman and her family and friends’ intersections in coastal Maine. It was adapted into a multi-Emmy-winning HBO miniseries starring Frances McDormand. A former PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and Orange Prize nominee, Strout also penned the novels Amy and Isabelle, Abide with Me, and The Burgess Boys. Her new book tells the story of an estranged mother and daughter’s reconnection after a hospital visit.