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. 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. Olive, Again Elizabeth Strout 4.11 91,137 ratings9,861 reviews Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Fiction (2019) Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is a compelling life force (San Francisco Chronicle). 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. Elizabeth Strout is the author of several novels, including: Abide with Me, a national bestseller and BookSense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. 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. t’s been more than a decade since the US writer Elizabeth Strout introduced us to Olive Kitteridge, the cantankerous eponymous heroine of her 2008 novel, which won a Pulitzer prize and later.

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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