![]() ![]() It swelled behind her like a sardine fishing net, all sorts of useless seaweed and broken bits of shells and the tiny, shining fish.the billion streaks of emotion she’d had as she’d looked at sunrises, sunsets.All of it gone, or about to go. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAHS BOOK CLUB PICK - Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a characte. Yet Olive struggles to figure herself out, and has an urgent need for a summing up: “But it was almost over, after all, her life. In one of the more comic chapters, Olive reveals herself to be a reluctant grandmother who fails to provide proper food for visiting grandchildren and can’t strike the right note with her daughter-in-law as a mother she frets that her adult son, Christopher, doesn’t seem to love her while she behaves coldly toward him and dislikes his stepchildren. In both Olive novels, Strout has created a wonderfully eccentric Mainer who verges, like most eccentrics, on self-parody, yet emerges finally as endearing, even beloved. Olive is the protagonist in some stories and a background presence in others, providing moral support and sympathy for girls and women who find themselves emotionally isolated. ![]() ![]() Olive, Again is a modestly self-effacing title for these 13 vividly realized interlocking tales shaped into a novel in the mode of Sherwood Anderson’s classic Winesburg, Ohio and Alice Munro’s The Beggar Maid, exploring the claustrophobia and loneliness of small-town life. ![]()
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