My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Among novelists there are, as Thomas Wolfe once said to F. Scott Fitzgerald, “putter-inners” and “taker-outers.” Elizabeth Strout is definitely a “taker-outer,” and much of the wonder and beauty of her new novel comes from the weight of things unsaid, as well as the things that, pushing against that great, silent weight, are said after …