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Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
A picture of small-town life told through connected stories.
Through each story... is Olive, a tough, blunt and stubborn retired school teacher.
I've set a goal to read all the Pulitzer Prize winners from 1981 onward.
Along the way, I’ve come across some truly great books, and a few that fell flat.
This one, while not a total miss, definitely leaned in that direction.
I think I was supposed to feel a certain fondness for Olive, to be endeared by her complexity, but I wasn’t. While I did feel sorry for her at times, that sympathy wasn’t enough to outweigh her often annoying behavior.
I wasn’t a fan of the book’s format, multiple short stories where Olive plays some role in each. The stories were too brief for me to form any real connection with the characters, and even though Olive appears in all of them, she wasn’t central enough for me to truly connect with her either.
Through each story... is Olive, a tough, blunt and stubborn retired school teacher.
I've set a goal to read all the Pulitzer Prize winners from 1981 onward.
Along the way, I’ve come across some truly great books, and a few that fell flat.
This one, while not a total miss, definitely leaned in that direction.
I think I was supposed to feel a certain fondness for Olive, to be endeared by her complexity, but I wasn’t. While I did feel sorry for her at times, that sympathy wasn’t enough to outweigh her often annoying behavior.
I wasn’t a fan of the book’s format, multiple short stories where Olive plays some role in each. The stories were too brief for me to form any real connection with the characters, and even though Olive appears in all of them, she wasn’t central enough for me to truly connect with her either.