![]() Now, ten years later, Strout has written a sequel: Olive, Again. The book went on to become an international best seller, and was eventually adapted into an HBO series. ![]() Olive charmed and exasperated readers with her singular mess of contradictions: She’s a judgy crank with a tender heart a lifelong Mainer who resents out-of-staters for their snobbery (while often out-snobbing them for things like their ignorance about flower species) a tempestuous mother just beginning to come to terms with the harm she’s inflicted on her now-grown son. The stories rove in and around the fictional town of Crosby, Maine, following Olive and an assortment of characters as they navigate long marriages, infidelities, mental illness, and family traumas large and small. ![]() ![]() In 2009, Elizabeth Strout’s book of linked stories, Olive Kitteridge, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and readers around the world fell for the book’s deeply flawed female lead: a stubborn, slow-to-smile, straight-talking retired math teacher named Olive. ![]()
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