New York: Random House, 1998. First edition - Author's highly praised debut, an extremely well-written novel about a mother and daughter in a small New England mill town. Although the first printing, in Jan 1999, was a relatively large number for for a first book at 35,000 copies, it went quickly into additional printings. This advance edition, of course, is much less common than the hardcover. Strout's third novel - Olive Kitteridge - was awarded the Pulitzer.