Quite rough around the edges, she is redemptive when it really matters. Olive is not easy to like or understand, yet her quirks make her. I am looking forward to back-tracking and reading Olive Kitteridge.įorced into a a life post-Henry, Olive Kitteridge of Crosby, Maine finds herself in a second marriage and grapples with relationships with those around her. I had no trouble following the story, gaining background, or understanding Olive. This read was completed without beginning with #1, Olive Kitteridge.
Thank you, NetGalley, for the pleasure of Olive, Again. Read it and nod and sigh and weep and laugh and smile. “And it came to him then, that it should never be taken lightly, the essential loneliness of people, that the choices they make to keep themselves from that gaping darkness were choices that require respect…”įive stars squared, indeed. Inconsistent and brutal, laced with startling kindness and unexpected humor, Olive Again illuminates the beautiful and inconsequential smallness of American life and most of all, the universal loneliness that seeps in with the passage of time. Every story is a gem, every sentence sings with insight and heart wrenching truths, and every word shimmers with humanity. Olive has no filters and this time, she takes us on the cruel and hilarious journey of aging and death: what we might expect of life as we begin our final years. Olive reminds me of Eudora Welty, with her blunt ways and unfiltered observations. I don’t ever recall reading right through a book and then going back to the beginning and starting it over again.
She’s hard to understand until you scratch beneath the coarse fabric of her, but you will not forget Olive and her lovely, quirky ways. Olive is a woman who wiggles her way into your heart-even when you don’t like her don’t want her to-and she stays there, in a quixotic, infuriating, and impossible way. So when Elizabeth Strout recently announced a sequel, called Olive, Again, I couldn’t wait to find out where life had taken her. I hungrily read the book, Olive Kitteridge, several years ago, after watching the incredible television adaption that starred Francis McDormand. Disclaimer, I received an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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