Elizabeth Strout

And I just kept saying, but why was he there?

And no answer.

Guy was typical Maine.

That was all there was to the story.

But he did say, he did say, I think my father called him and took him for a drink a couple nights later.

And then I realized, oh, that came back for Kenneth Moynihan to call him.

And I thought, that was helpful.

So I could not get rid of this image of a man floating in the water.

And the fellow who told me just didn't seem interested at all.

I mean, maybe he was, but he just was Maine and didn't show it.

And he had nothing else to tell me.

He didn't know why the man was in the water.

And so as the obituary person became more and more, I kept thinking about this man in the water.

And I thought, okay, well, let's start with pretty much start with Artie in the water.

I went down the coast.

Well, I just realized, I thought, okay, I'd like to get out of Maine.

I was, you know, I had just written, tell me everything.

And I thought, okay, I'm done.

Let's go down to Massachusetts.

So my husband and I took a car ride, which we often do.