Olive Kitteridge

Book • 2008

This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel offers profound insights into the human condition through the lives of the residents of Crosby, Maine.

Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, is at the heart of the narrative, which explores themes of desire, despair, jealousy, hope, and love.

The book is structured as 13 episodic stories that provide a rich and nuanced portrait of Olive and the people around her, highlighting their joys, sorrows, tragedies, and grief.

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Mentioned by Debra Curtis as a contemporary novel she used as an instructional guide while writing.

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#191: Debra Curtis — Becoming a Novelist After Sixty, Surviving Hundreds of Rejections, Radical Forgiveness, and Not Giving Up as a Writer

Mentioned as part of a series of books that includes the novel Olive Kitteridge.

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Bethan Burton

as a book she is currently reading, finding it beneficial during a turbulent time.

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Stephen Colbert

in reference to the large volume of Epstein documents released by the Justice Department.

John Oliver | Lights, Camera, Redaction

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Tom Sutcliffe

and reviewers as a prior Elizabeth Strout book referenced within the new novel's world.

Reviewing The Sheep Detectives, Elizabeth Strout and Henry Moore at Kew

Mentioned by the narrator as the eponymous main character in Strout's Pulitzer-winning work and as a recurring figure illustrating Strout's complexity.

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Lilah Raptopoulos

as a book featuring a couple where the woman has anorexia.

FT Weekend: The story of a stolen cookbook. Plus, Elizabeth Strout

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