The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout

Author:Elizabeth Strout [Strout, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2026-05-05T00:00:00+00:00

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But they now sat in the living room with this huge thing silently between them; Artie’s mind had a lot of trouble taking this in. And then he thought: We have always sat in this room with this huge thing silently between us.

Only it had not been between them because he had never known.

But Evie had known. Night after night for twenty-eight years she had known this about their son.

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In any event, this began the part of Artie’s life where he lied to his wife. He lied by omission, but he lied all the time.

At certain moments he would think, as he did that night when he had returned from seeing Rob: Well, she is lying to me too. And so they lived their lie, only now they were living it together.

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