NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK • Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout
continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge a character who has captured the
imaginations of millions. Strout managed to make me love this strange woman I'd never met who
I knew nothing about. What a terrific writer she is.-Zadie Smith The Guardian Just as
wonderful as the original . . . Olive Again poignantly reminds us that empathy a requirement
for love helps make life 'not unhappy.'-NPR NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
PEOPLE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • Vogue • NPR • The Washington Post •
Chicago Tribune • Vanity Fair • Entertainment Weekly • BuzzFeed • Esquire • Real Simple • Good
Housekeeping • The New York Public Library • The Guardian • Evening Standard • Kirkus Reviews •
Publishers Weekly • BookPage Prickly wry resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply
empathetic Olive Kitteridge is a compelling life force (San Francisco Chronicle). The New
Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout animates the ordinary with an astonishing force and she
has never done so more clearly than in these pages where the iconic Olive struggles to
understand not only herself and her own life but the lives of those around her in the town of
Crosby Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with the loss of her father a young
woman about to give birth during a hilariously inopportune moment a nurse who confesses a
secret high school crush or a lawyer who struggles with an inheritance she does not want to
accept the unforgettable Olive will continue to startle us to move us and to inspire us-in
Strout's words-to bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can. Praise for Olive
Again Olive is a brilliant creation not only because of her eternal cantankerousness but
because she's as brutally candid with herself about her shortcomings as she is with others. Her
honesty makes people strangely willing to confide in her and the raw power of Ms. Strout's
writing comes from these unvarnished exchanges in which characters reveal themselves in all of
their sadness and badness and confusion. . . . The great terrible mess of living is spilled
out across the pages of this moving book. Ms. Strout may not have any answers for it but she
isn't afraid of it either.-The Wall Street Journal
