Summary: <p>Elizabeth Strout's novel in stories, "Olive Kitteridge," won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2009. Her new novel took more than seven years to research and write. "The Burgess Boys" centers on three middle-aged siblings haunted by their father's accidental death. The guilt of one brother has defined his life, as well as that of his sister, brother, their spouses and children. The brothers fled small town Maine for New York City. But when their sister calls them home, buried family tensions erupt. Her teenaged son is involved in an incident that threatens the peace between the newly arrived Somali community and the locals.</p>
