stephanieelizabethbonin 's review for:

Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout

5.0

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This quiet, moving book came out of nowhere and wrecked me in the end. Elizabeth Strout is already my sweet spot. Her straightforward, yet gentle prose has a way of revealing all the character has. She brings them to life. My heart physically ached for the Reverend Tyler and his clearly hurting daughter. Somehow Strout sucked me back to childhood pain of my own. She is that good. This book has yes, heartbreak, but hope, and prayer, and song too. It also has gossip and assumption and all those things I abhor, and she wrote them perfectly- because I ran hot reading it, y’all. This just may be my favorite Elizabeth Strout novel to date. Yes. It was that good.