'The landscape and the light'
“I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New Englanders, and so, in my writing, I've been drawn back there to the landscape and the light and the type of personality that's revealed.’’
— Elizabeth Strout, novelist (Olive Kittridge, for which she won a Pulitzer. is her best-known book).