Author event with Elizabeth Strout

Parnassus Books is pleased to present a special evening with Elizabeth Strout to celebrate her new book, Tell Me Everything, with an introduction by Ann Patchett. In 2023, Elizabeth Strout gave the best lecture about writing that Ann Patchett had ever heard. In celebration of Strout's new novel, TELL ME EVERYTHING, Ann has asked Liz to give the lecture again, followed by discussion about the book. Prepare to be amazed.

This ticketed event will begin at 6:30 at Parnassus Books, 3900 Hillsboro Pk, suite 14, Nashville, TN.

Ticketing:

Each ticket is $32.80 and includes one general admission seat and one signed copy of Tell Me Everything. There will be a signing line following the event where Elizabeth will personalize your book. (first name only)

Additional copies of Tell Me Everything, and other books by Elizabeth Strout, will be available for sale at the event while supplies last. These books can be personalized in the signing line as well.

Parking:

There is ample, free parking in front of the store, as well as in the lot and garage behind the store.

About the book:

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.

With her "extraordinary capacity for radical empathy" ( The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her 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?"

It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding M**der investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, is finally introduced to the iconic Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive's apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known--"unrecorded lives," Olive calls them--reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning.

Brimming with empathy and pathos, Tell Me Everything is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which we our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, "Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love."

About the author:

Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lucy by the Sea; Oh William!, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Olive, Again; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name Is Lucy Barton; The Burgess Boys; Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Abide with Me; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in London. She lives in Maine.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Parnassus Books, 3900 Hillsboro Pike, Nashville, United States