Olive, Again by author Elizabeth Strout revisits the now iconic character of Olive. We first met Olive in Strout’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Olive Kitteredge. Cranky, self-obsessed and yet strangely endearing, Olive inhabits every corner of the fictional, small Maine town of Crosby.
As
with the first novel, Strout creates characters alive with startling clarity.
Everyday lives are fascinating as Stroud explores all the complexities and
intricacies of the human condition. Olive, in some way touches each life, if
only briefly. As we observe Olive aging, we see her soften somewhat; still
prickly but starting to question herself, her life and her choices. Olive, as
contradictory as always, is rich reading. This is a novel to savor.
Recommend.
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