“‘What has motivated me for so many years to be a writer is the question: What does it feel like to be a different person?’
Like Ms. Strout’s other novels, Oh William! is primarily about how hard it is ever to know anyone, including ourselves. ‘Who we are is always mirrored back to us from different people, so our sense of self is always a little nebulous,’ she says.”
Emily Bobrow, “Novelist Elizabeth Strout Never Judges Her Characters,” Wall Street Journal, October 15, 2021.