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in good faith.(Abide with Me)(Brief article)(Book review)
Byline: Taylor Antrim
Elizabeth Strout's 1998 debut, Amy and Isabelle, told the story of a daughter's awakening to sex one sultry New England summer. In her meditative second novel, Abide with Me (Random House),
Strout has returned to rural, mill-town Maine-but she's shifted her season to winter, and cooled the goings-on a little as well. While Amy and Isabelle gave us a sixteen-year-old grappling with her math teacher in the
front seat of his car, here we have Tyler Caskey, a young Congregationalist minister, grappling with the death of his wife.
Strout, a Maine native, peoples the town of West Annett with hardy, wealth-suspicious New Englanders, those men and women
of Puritan stock who find life "a struggle, character honed every step of the way." They endure the winter of 1959 ...
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