"It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives nearby in a house next to the sea. Together, Lucy and Bob talk about their lives, their hopes and regrets, and what might have been.

Lucy, meanwhile, befriends one of Crosby’s longest inhabitants, Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive’s apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known – “unrecorded lives,” Olive calls them – reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning.

Brimming with empathy and pathos, Tell Me Everything is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, “'ove comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.'"

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Our Morning Book Club is open to one and all, whether or not you are a Morristown or Morris Township resident. We will meet in the upstairs Treasure Room space from 10 – 11 am. 

Copies of the book are reserved for Book Club members at the main circulation desk. Ask a librarian for a copy. Please feel free to join us even if you didn’t get a chance to finish the book.

If you have any questions about this book club, please email morristownreaders@mmt.mainlib.org with the subject line “Morning Book Club”.

We look forward to seeing you then!