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Abide with Me

By: Elizabeth Strout
Narrated by: Gerrianne Raphael
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Summary

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge comes a “superb” (O: The Oprah Magazine) novel that “confirms Strout as the possessor of an irresistibly companionable, peculiarly American voice.” (The Atlantic Monthly)

In the late 1950s, in a small New England town, Reverend Tyler Caskey has suffered a terrible loss and finds it hard to be the person he once was. He struggles to find the right words in his sermons and in his conversations with those facing crises of their own, and to bring his five-year-old daughter, Katherine, out of the silence she has observed in the wake of the family’s tragedy. Tyler’s usually patient and kind congregation now questions his leadership and propriety, and accusations are born out of anger and gossip. Then, in Tyler’s darkest hour, a startling discovery will test his parish’s humanity—and his own will to endure the trials that sooner or later test us all.
©2006 Elizabeth Strout (P)2006 Random House Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House Inc.
Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological
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"Strout has crafted a harrowing meditation of exile on Main Street." ( Publishers Weekly)

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I’m a huge Strout fan but not this one

I found it depressing, there was nothing witty or outrageous as in Lucy Barton or the Olive books it was a low-level sadness that permeated all characters and all moments and the narration made everyone more annoying than they needed to be.

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