Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth StroutMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
It's as good as everybody says, and the author is phenomenally skilled at keeping attention riveted on characters who flaunt their ordinariness in the regionalist way that Mainers are known for. Their traits mirror traits of all humanity, at least in prosperous Western civilization terms. I'm just curious if anyone else felt that Strout might be tiring of these people. How the Burgess boys deal with their past, and how love is distributed around like plates of cookies. I kind of got the impression of what a National Lampoon parody of Trout might be like, when parodies were gentle but pointed.
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