NEW YORK– NEW YORK (AP) —
Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick will be a story about familiar faces – in more ways than one.
Winfrey announced Tuesday that she had chosen “Tell Me Everything,” the new novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. It’s the second time Winfrey has cited a book by Strout, whose “Olive, Again” was a 2019 selection. And it’s a return to popular literary territory, Strout’s fictional Crosby, Maine, as the author continues the lives of favorites like the aged and unbent Olive Kitteridge and the famous writer Lucy Barton.
“Elizabeth Strout welcomes us back home, back to the small town where we witness the interconnectedness of all the characters we have ever loved in her previous novels,” Winfrey said in a statement. “It is a beautiful book that reminds us that there is extraordinary love in ordinary actions.”
Strout is best known for the million-selling “Olive Kitteridge,” a series of interconnected stories that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was adapted into an Emmy-winning HBO miniseries starring Frances McDormand. Strout’s other books include “Amy and Isabelle” and “My Name Is Lucy Barton.”
“The first time Oprah called me was extraordinary,” the author said in a statement. “The second time she called me was absolutely amazing! Twice she has chosen a book of mine for her book club and I am so humbled that even though I supposedly ‘use words’, I am almost at a loss for words to express how grateful I am to her. She has done an amazing job helping people of this world discover and read books; to me Oprah is a rock star.”
