This new novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Strout is set in Maine, "as is often the case with Strout," notes Nelson. It tells the story of two grown men and their sister. The brothers both now live in Brooklyn but their sister has remained in their home state of Maine. When her son gets himself into trouble – he does something "a little bit worse than a prank but very politically incorrect" that gets him shunned by the town – the boy's two uncles return home to help. The two men are as different as they can be – one is a slick corporate attorney and the other a kind-hearted public defender – and returning home brings back the past and the siblings' many unresolved issues.
