Review: The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout

The cover design for The Things We Never Say has similar colours to the blue cloth background I tend to use nowadays. So blind we humans are—so blind. To each other and to ourselves, moving through life as though through shadows, putting out a hand in the dark and thinking we have touched someone. And maybe we have, as Artie did with Rhonda Lazarre that day. But mostly we travel through life unsighted, grasping only the smallest details of one another’s selves, including our own. Thinking all the while that we can see. page 59 Table of ContentsWhy The Things We Never Say?The BookConcluding Thoughts Why The Things We Never Say? The Things We Never Say is the second 2026 Booker prize longlist entry of the three that I have picked up. The first being All Them Dogs which read just before this. My interest in the premise of the book was fairly minimal but I still want to read more literary fiction this year and I also saw it on my local indie book store’s best sellers list so I bought…