Jake Williams

My first Elizabeth Strout.

You adore Elizabeth Strout.

Knowing what you know now about what I like, what do you think I thought about this?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, I think you've got it.

I think you've got it.

I did enjoy it.

I was quite, I was looking forward to talking to you about it because it wasn't, the style of it, I imagine is so classic her, where you have this like omniscient narrator almost.

It really felt like there wasn't just like a,

How would you describe this?

In most books, it feels like the narrator is almost invisible.

If there even is one, it can be third person, but the third person isn't from somebody's perspective.

And this one felt like there was somebody there observing.

Yeah, outside of the story looking in, which kind of reminded me of films like It's a Wonderful Life, where you're looking at this small town and you get the sense that there is a...

Okay, I think we're in a town in Maine.

So we're probably in the same town.

No, it's nice.

It's like part of a network of, yeah, I can totally see that that works.