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
