<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this “compulsively readable” (<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>) novel from #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout<br /><br />“This book, this writer, are magnificent.”—Ann Patchett</b><br /><br /><b><b><b>Winner of The Story Prize • </b>A <i>Washington Post</i> and <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book • One of <i>USA Today</i>’s top 10 books of the year<br /></b></b><br />Recalling <i>Olive Kitteridge</i> in its richness, structure, and complexity, <i>Anything Is Possible</i> explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others.<br /><br /> Here are<i> </i>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. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother’s happiness in a foreign country; and the adult Lucy Barton (the heroine of <i>My Name Is Lucy Barton,</i> the author’s celebrated <i>New York Times </i>bestseller) returns to visit her siblings after seventeen years of absence.<br /><br /> Reverberating with the deep bonds of family, and the hope that comes with reconciliation, <i>Anything Is Possible</i> again underscores Elizabeth Strout’s place as one of America’s most respected and cherished authors.