Reviews Of Olive Again

Its 13 lightly intertwined stories take place in the imaginary maine towns of crosby and shirley falls.
Reviews of olive again. Olive again by elizabeth strout ten years after her pulitzer prize winning olive kitteridge elizabeth strout returns to the town of crosby maine where ornery olive is learning about. Julie davis i read olive again without having read olive kitteredge and i really enjoyed the book. One of the strengths of strout s novel is that she realistically details the uncertainty. Elizabeth strout s new novel olive again reprises beloved olive kitteridge the aging cranky bossy wry flummoxed sad brave lonely anti heroine of strout s pulitzer prize winning 2008.
Some of the characters are familiar from earlier novels but. Stupid is a favorite adjective and phooey to you a frequent term of dismissal. Olive has not become any easier to like since her husband henry died two years ago. Theirs is an on off relationship but in olive again jack and olive manage to evolve together.
Olive again by elizabeth strout review a moving tour de force the formidable small town anti heroine returns exploring themes of grief loneliness regret and hope hannah beckerman. Olive again is a lovely book.