Elizabeth Strout

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888 appearances 5 recordings 5 series first heard Sep 2019 last heard 12 Jun

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The Last Word with Matt Cooper · Novelist Elizabeth Strout On The Secrets Of Ordinary People · 12 Jun 2026 podcast

Do you see what I mean?

Exactly.

And that's, I mean, you know, I'm getting older now.

So, and I've been thinking about that so much as well, because I think when you're younger, you think, well, I can, I can absolutely leave and reinvent myself.

I think it's the word that was popular, you know, I can reinvent myself.

But I'm not so sure one can totally get rid of all the things that have happened to them as a young child.

Well, I was brought up by very puritanical parents in Maine, in the state of Maine.

And I realized, and I couldn't wait to get away.

And I did.

I got away for many, many years.

And they've both passed away, and now I'm back and living in Maine.

And it's so interesting because I realized...

Oh, I really am from Maine.

I mean, I don't share certain qualities.

I mean, people from Maine do not talk very much and obviously I'm rather chatty, but I do understand more and more.

It's hard to put my finger on it, but I realize, oh, I am from Maine.

But go back to the puritanical thing that you mentioned.

Yes, yes, I did.

And there's another interviewer who had said that I had told him years ago, and I stand by it, that my parents were very sceptical of pleasure.

And that was part of their puritanical background that was part of what I grew up with.

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