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Olive, again : a novel / Elizabeth Strout.

by Strout, Elizabeth.

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Random House, 2019.

Retired teachers -- Fiction.

Older women -- Fiction.

City and town life -- Fiction.

Maine -- Fiction.

9780812996548 (hc.)

289 p. ; 25 cm.

Sequel to: Olive Kitteridge.

Arrested -- Labor -- Cleaning -- Motherless child -- Helped -- Light -- The walk -- Pedicure -- Exiles -- The poet -- The end of the Civil War days -- Heart -- Friend.

Olive returns, this time as a person getting older, navigating her next decade as she comes to terms with the changes--sometimes welcome, sometimes not--in her own life. Here is Olive, strangely content in her second marriage, still in an evolving relationship with her son and his family, encountering a cast of memorable characters in the seaside town of Crosby, Maine. Whether it's a young girl coming to terms with the loss of her father, a young woman about to give birth at a baby shower, or a nurse who confesses a secret high school crush, the irascible Olive improbably touches the lives of others. Elizabeth Strout has achieved greatness by brilliantly laying bare the inner lives of ordinary people, by focusing on the small moments of connection which can dislodge lifelong grief and longing, and unite her characters through moments of transcendent grace.

Literary fiction.

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