Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Strout

January 6th, 1956

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It wasn’t until late last year that I first read Elizabeth Strout. I picked up “Oh William!” when it made the Booker Prize longlist and fell in love with it. Such an odd yet intimate book. A woman who doesn’t recognize her own success, and the lovely Platonic friendship she’s maintained with her first husband. That’s ov…