The Award Tally

Anything Is Possible

See the full ranking

Anything Is Possible won the Story Prize and was a New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, People, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, The Seattle Times, Esquire, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly best book of the year. In Anything Is Possible, Elizabeth Strout explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two 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. A grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother's happiness in a foreign country. And Lucy Barton returns to visit her siblings after seventeen years of absence. Reverberating with the deep bonds of family, and the hope that comes with reconciliation, Anything Is Possible explores the intimate lives of small-town characters coping with love and loss.

Buy this book at Amazon
Publisher
Random House
Year
2017
ISBN-13
9780812989427
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Family relationshipsSmall-town lifeReconciliation and forgiveness