Video Description: For Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Elizabeth Strout, writing is an “act of communication” between herself and her readers. Her new novel, “The Burgess Boys”, continues that conversation with an unsettling look into the lives of siblings, their families, an immigrant haunted by loss, and the small town that ties them together.

• Provide the video for students who like books by this author.
• Use the video in conjunction with a student activity with students evaluating their own writing and writing process. What insights do they gain from the author to help them in their writing?
• Use the video in a flipped learning activity and have students come to class prepared to share two insights gained by watching the video and two questions they’d like answered through their own or class research.