Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout · 2008
Thirteen interconnected stories in coastal Maine. Olive is difficult, brilliant, cruel, and heartbreaking.
The case against
Several of the thirteen stories give Olive a walk-on at best, and you feel the difference; the ones without her at center are competent New England miseries of a kind the quarterlies print by the yard. Strout's epiphanies also arrive on schedule, one quiet devastation per story. When Olive is on the page, none of this matters. She is not always on the page.
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