Olive's Ocean by the multiple award-winning author Kevin Henkes (also of ‘Chrysanthemum’, ‘Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse,’ and others) grapples with family dynamics, death, and the healing power of ...

The book will bring Strout to The Elliott Bay Book Company on Wednesday, Jan. 20. Strout’s latest narrator grew up in a remote and stark Illinois town, where she lived in a cramped and cold ...