Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others.

Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life.

The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother’s happiness in a foreign country; and the adult Lucy Barton (the heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton, the author’s celebrated New York Times bestseller) returns to visit her siblings after seventeen years of absence.

Reverberating with the deep bonds of family, and the hope that comes with reconciliation, Anything Is Possible again underscores Elizabeth Strout’s place as one of America’s most respected and cherished authors.


本書回顧前作《生活是頭安靜的獸》細膩描繪人與人之間豐富、糾結的感情聯繫，再次深入刻畫人們試圖了解自我與他人的關係，探索人類之間的情感。

故事裡的一對姊妹花，一個選擇嫁入豪門，另一個則在書中找到改變人生的知己。

當地校警遇上一名孤立無援的男子，使其信仰備受考驗；一名長大成人的女兒仍渴望著母愛，即便母親已在異國另組幸福家庭；以及長大成人的露西．巴頓，睽違十七年後回到家鄉探望她的兄弟姊妹（露西為《我的名字叫露西．巴頓》之女主角，該作品獲《紐約時報》評選為最暢銷小說）。

交織著複雜的家庭羈絆與和解帶來的希望，本書再次凸顯了伊麗莎白．斯特勞特，身為美國最受敬愛作家之地位。