Elizabeth Strout

It is not “good” or “bad” that interests me as a writer, but the murkiness of human experience and the consistent imperfections of our lives.

— Elizabeth Strout

Today I've been reading Anything is Possible, another brilliant novel by Elizabeth Strout. She captures--more than any other American novelist for me--the "murkiness of human experience." 

This may be my favorite of her novels so far, but I'm about to read the others all over again with a new appreciation for her captivating writing: Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys and others.