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Publisher: Random House
Title: The Things We Never Say
Author: Elizabeth Strout
On Sale Date: May 5, 2026
ISBN 13: 979-8217154746
ISBN 10: N/A
Format: Hardcover
Retail Price: $29.00
BISAC: FICTION / Family Life
Page Count: 224
Dimensions: 5.81 x 0.95 x 8.54 inches
Weight: 13.6 oz
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Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, along with Tell Me Everything, Lucy by the Sea, Oh William! (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Olive, Again, and My Name Is Lucy Barton, among others. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize. The Things We Never Say is her third Booker Prize nomination. She lives in Maine and New York City.
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Pre-release readers are calling it devastating, understated, and profound:
Booker Prize judges call Strout's prose "brilliantly understated and all the more powerful for that."
The Boston Globe praises her "capacious empathy and rigorous attention" to human behavior.
The Financial Times calls it "a profound, resplendent novel."
Time says Strout's "energized prose and gimlet-eyed insights" elevate her game.
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You’ve read every Elizabeth Strout novel and can’t wait for the next one.
You want quiet, character-driven fiction that still manages to feel urgent and of-the-moment.
You’re drawn to stories about the secrets ordinary people keep from the ones they love most.
You want a Booker Prize contender that’s also a New York Times bestseller.
You appreciate prose that does more with restraint than most novels do with excess.
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