Elizabeth Strout - Writer Extraordinaire

Just read Elizabeth Strout's 2008 novel Olive Kitteridge.  Highly recommended!  I'm always amazed and delighted when an author captures a fictional character's thoughts in such a way as to describe exactly what I might think.  Discovering another person plugged into the same wave length as I, and reflecting it back through color or word pictures, certainly makes the world a much less lonely place.

Here's a more complete review from Louisa Thomas at the The New York Times