Olive, Again

“Just as wonderful as the original... Olive, Again poignantly reminds us that empathy, a requirement for love, helps make life ‘not unhappy.’”  -  NPR

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.  Olive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply loveable Olive Kitteridge as she grows older, navigating the second half of her life as she comes to terms with the changes - sometimes welcome, sometimes not - in her own existence and in those around her.

“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