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GR 3.66 The Burgess Boys is a novel by Elizabeth Strout about three siblings from Maine—Jim, Bob, and Susan—whose lives are upended when they are forced to confront their past after Susan's teenage son, Zach, is accused of a hate crime involving a pig's head at a mosque. The story explores their dysfunctional family dynamics, the lingering trauma from their father's childhood death, and the tensions between the town's longtime residents and its growing Somali population, all while revealing the characters' complex inner lives and the ties that bind them to home.