PanThe New RepublicThough Strout peers into these lives with warmth and compassion...she has tended to do so without sentimentality ... And yet her recent novels, including the latest, are not as adept at treading that line ... The problem with Tell Me Everything is that everyone is innocent, or at least absolved ... What happened to Strout? The writing does not feel lazy or complacent. Nor, despite an almost comical amount of hemming and hawing in the dialogue, would I exactly call it timid ...
