The book the Library provided for our book group this month was Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout. It's a series of linked short stories set around small town and rural life in Illinois. It took me some time to get into it but when I did, I couldn't stop. The characters are convincing and the setting makes me think of my teenage pen friend who lived on a farm in Illinois. One of the characters, often referred to, but who appears in only one of the stories is Lucy Barton the main character of Strout's Pulitzer winning short novel, My Name is Lucy Barton, so, of course, I had to get it immediately and found many links with the other book.