Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Olive, Again, an Oprah’s Book Club pick; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name is Lucy Barton, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; The Burgess Boys, named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and NPR; Abide with Me, a national bestseller; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the International Dublin Literary Award, and the Orange Prize. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine. Elizabeth Strout lives in New York City.
“In the first chapter of Elizabeth Strout’s Olive, Again . . . the
man who will become Olive’s second husband writes, ‘Dear Olive
Kitteridge, I have missed you and if you would see fit to call me
or email me or see me, I would like that very much.’ Jack Kennison
might be speaking for fans of Strout’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Olive
Kitteridge, which inspired an Emmy-winning HBO mini-series and now
this sequel. However, like its iconic heroine, this book is capable
of standing alone. . . . [Olive] is as indelible as the ink on Jack
Kennison’s paper. If you know Olive, you know how she would respond
to the hoopla: with an eye roll and an ‘Oh Godfrey.’ It’s good to
have her back.”—Elisabeth Egan, The New York Times Book Review
“Strout dwells with uncanny immediacy inside the minds and hearts
of a dazzling range of ages: the young (with their confusion,
wonder, awakening sexuality), the middle-aged (envy, striving,
compromise), the old (failing bodies, societal shunning, late
revelations). . . . I have long and deeply admired all of Strout’s
work, but Olive, Again transcends and triumphs. The naked
pain, dignity, wit and courage these stories consistently embody
fill us with a steady, wrought comfort.”—The Washington
Post
“In thirteen poignant interconnected stories, Strout follows the
cantankerous, truth-telling Mainer as she ages, experiencing a
joyful second marriage and the evolution of her difficult
relationship with her son. In her blunt yet compassionate way,
Olive grapples with loneliness, infidelity, mortality and the
question of whether we can ever really know someone—ourselves
included.”—People (Book of the Week)
“A magnificent achievement on its own terms . . . We see Olive
acquiring a view of herself, and coming to recognize as valuable
the other people who grant that vision. In the process, she shares
in the alchemy that she continues to perform for us and elicits our
unexpected, abiding love.”—The Boston Globe
“Strout has created one of those rare characters . . . so vivid and
humorous that they seem to take on a life independent of the story
framing them.”—The Guardian
“The lovable, irascible Olive Kitteridge is back. . . . In this
novel—set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing Maine, ravaged
by opioid addiction and economic neglect—Strout wields great pathos
out of life and all its attendant tragedies.”—BuzzFeed
“Strout aims the spotlight on her wry heroine and the characters of
Crosby, Maine, in another book that’s sure to have you flipping
pages long into the night.”—Bustle
“Olive, Again returns to Olive and the town of Crosby to do
what Strout does best: find meaning in the tiniest and most mundane
details of everyday life.”—Vox
“Strout has said that she doesn’t know why readers like Olive so
much, except that she is complicated, like all of us. But I think
we all have had an Olive in our lives whom we never got to know.
Mine was a teacher named Gertrude. It is Strout’s genius to reveal
them to us in all their idiosyncratic glory. Olive, again? Oh yes,
I do think so.”—Ann Treneman, The Times (UK)
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