The Burgess Boys

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Elizabeth Strout's novel about brothers Jim and Bob Burgess, New York lawyers who return to their Maine hometown when their sister's teenage son commits a hate crime against the local Somali community, reopening old family wounds.

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• Hillary Clinton: “I just finished The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout. I love Elizabeth Strout and all of her Olive and Olive Kitteridge and everything that she's written.”