Oprah Winfrey has announced that her latest Oprah’s Book Club pick is TELL ME EVERYTHING (Random House) by Pulitzer Prize-winner and #1 New York Times-bestseller Elizabeth Strout. The news was announced yesterday on CBS Mornings. Click here to watch the full segment. This is the second book by Strout to be selected for Oprah’s Book Club; her novel OLIVE, AGAIN was chosen in 2019.
“Elizabeth Strout welcomes us home again, back to the small town where we witness the interconnection of all the characters we’ve ever loved in her previous novels,” said Oprah Winfrey. “It’s a beautiful read reminding us that there is extraordinary love in ordinary actions.”
Elizabeth Strout, photo courtesy of PRH.com
Of the news, Strout said: “The first time Oprah called me was extraordinary. The second time she called me was absolutely astonishing! Two times she has chosen a book of mine for her book club and I am so humbled that even though I supposedly ‘use words’ there are almost no words I have to say how grateful I am to her. She has done an amazing job to help people of this world discover and read books; to me Oprah is a rockstar.”
TELL ME EVERYTHING is a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world. Told with Elizabeth Strout’s remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, the novel returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to Strout’s beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst; fall in love and yet choose to be apart; and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it: “What does anyone’s life mean?”
Andy Ward, Strout’s editor and Random House publisher, says there’s one question he gets about Strout all the time: Which book should a reader start with?
“To my mind TELL ME EVERYTHING is the perfect entry point to Liz’s remarkable body of work, and the world she has created,” Ward says. “All her characters are here, all her themes abound. Everything she has been refining as a writer over the years is brought to bear here, as she explores the deepest questions in life – namely, do our lives have meaning? And how will we be remembered?”
