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Title	:	Abide with Me
Author	:	Elizabeth Strout
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 302 pages
Published	:	March 13th 2007 by Random House Trade (first published March 14th 2006)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Religion. Literary Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction

Abide with Me

Elizabeth Strout

Paperback | Pages: 302 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 10517 Users | 1340 Reviews

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An outstanding and moving portrait of the quiet courage of a minster and his community in rural Maine in the 50’s. This is a time when the Cold War, crass commercialism, and the insights of Freud about hidden sexual motivations were undermining spirituality in the American populace. The Congregational minister, Tyler Caskey, is having trouble inspiring his flock or taking their problems seriously as he is still recovering from the death of his wife one year before. His four-year old daughter Catherine has mostly stopped speaking except to say hateful things like “I hate God” and his other infant daughter has been taken into the care of his bitchy, judgmental mother. Yet his frequent epiphanies of God immanent in nature and the model of courage set by Bonhoeffer’s faith in the face of imprisonment and death by the Nazis keeps him on the path. He comes to rise above all the vicious gossip and petty concerns of his parishioners and church board and tune into the ones who really need his help and as a result reap the help he needs himself. Just when the lack of dramatic action and the pathos of Tyler’s condition begins to weigh you down, certain personal breakthroughs on his part and some in the community stun you with surprise and joy over the resilience of the human heart and the power of love to redeem.

This second Strout novel had a lot more warmth and cohesiveness than the other I read, “Olive Kitteridge”, which features a series of vignettes about a middle-aged curmudgeon. It yielded up a lot of the same pleasures and uplifting tears that I got from the portraits of rural life in the works of Kent Haruf and Marylynne Robinson. Highly recommended and effective in audiobook version.

Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide;
When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, oh, abide with me.

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Original Title:	Abide With Me
ISBN:	0812971825 (ISBN13: 9780812971828)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Rev. Tyler Caskey, Katherine Caskey
Setting:	West Annett, Maine(United States)

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I can't go wrong with Elizabeth Strout. Her writing always draws me in and touches my heart so I'm glad I went back to her early work with this novel. It sounds off-putting, but this story is very much an exploration of faith and despair, told primarily through the eyes of a Congregationalist preacher who's lost his wife.The language is beautiful. I've never been to Maine, but I could feel the land and the people through every page. Like with many of her other novels, the ancillary characters

I really enjoyed this book. The story was set in Maine not far away from Shirley Falls which is the setting for another book by this author. It centers around Tyler Caskey who is a newly ordained minister and his family. Within the five years since his move to West Annett he and his wife have had two girls and and lost his wife to cancer. His girls are split apart Katherine living with him and Jenny with his mother back in Shirley Falls. Katherine has a hard time socializing in her kindergarten

This book was not what I expected. It was not about religion but about human nature and how we overcome some of our basic and more ugly tendencies. The pastor in this book was so excellently portrayed in his strengths and his venerabilitys that I felt I could reach out and touch him. The author did not tell you the mans wife was shallow, self-absorbed and immature but by showed her behavior in telling situations. The way her husband loved her was heart rending and I was glad the author gave her

This is my third book by Elizabeth Strout and she is fast becoming one of my go to authors. I know I will be completely immersed in her stories and enjoy every minute spent reading them.

I'm surprised I loved this even more than Amy and Isabelle! Tyler Caskey is a minister in late 1950s New England. The story is an exploration of grief and a crisis of faith, treated with respect and subtlety. I love how Strout builds small-town community dynamics between all of her realistic and carefully drawn characters. A wonderful novel that had me tearing up throughout.

4.5 stars. Really glad I took a chance on this one. Can't believe this was only her second novel. Strout is a powerful writer. Her love for the natural world /New England really stood out for me in this one, and added much to my enjoyment of this book. But I think this author's real strength lies in her ability to distill a small town by climbing into the minds of many of its inhabitants. This seems a bit like it may be a slightly sweet book about a (now) single father, the local minister,

I adore the way that Elizabeth Strout writes her people. Their quiet introspection and the sedate pace of their lives, the tragedies that befall them - there are always tragedies, but they are the same that everyone deals with in their lives. Quiet lives beautifully written, no murder or mayhem but calm resignation of the fates that befall all of us or a decline entered into because of the forces of nature, but always with hope bringing them out of it.This is the story of a minister and his life