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
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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
