Abide with Me: A Novel

ISBN: 0812971825

Author: Strout, Elizabeth

Condition: New

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton comes a deeply moving (The Washington Post) novel that confirms Strout as the possessor of an irresistibly companionable, peculiarly American voice (The Atlantic Monthly).Superb . . . a shimmering tale of loss, faith, and human fallibility.-O: The Oprah MagazineIn the late 1950s, in a small New England town, Reverend Tyler Caskey has suffered a terrible loss and finds it hard to be the person he once was. He struggles to find the right words in his sermons and in his conversations with those facing crises of their own, and to bring his five-year-old daughter, Katherine, out of the silence she has observed in the wake of the familys tragedy. Tylers usually patient and kind congregation now questions his leadership and propriety, and accusations are born out of anger and gossip. Then, in Tylers darkest hour, a startling discovery will test his parishs humanity-and his own will to endure the trials that sooner or later test us all.