Reviews for Olive Kitteridge

  

“Olive Kitteridge is an often-painful book to read because of its insistence on life's sharper realities, but that is precisely what makes it such a gratifying stunner.”
- The Boston Globe

 

“Funny, wicked and remorseful, Mrs. Kitteridge is a compelling life force, a red-blooded original. When she’s not onstage, we look forward to her return. The book is a page-turner because of her.”
- San Francisco Chronicle

 

“Perceptive, deeply empathetic . . . Olive is the axis around which these thirteen complex, relentlessly human narratives spin themselves into Elizabeth Strout’s unforgettable novel in stories.”
- O: The Oprah Magazine

 

“Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge. . . . You’ll never forget her. . . . [Elizabeth Strout] constructs her stories with rich irony and moments of genuine surprise and intense emotion. . . . Glorious, powerful stuff.”
- USA Today

 

“Olive Kitteridge still lingers in memory like a treasured photograph.”
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer

 

“Rarely does a story collection pack such a gutsy emotional punch.”
- Entertainment Weekly

 

“Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force. . . . [She] makes us experience not only the terrors of change but also the terrifying hope that change can bring: she plunges us into these churning waters and we come up gasping for air.”
- The New Yorker

 

“...the collection is easy to read and impossible to forget. Its literary craft and emotional power will surprise readers unfamiliar with Strout.”
- Publisher's Weekly

 

“Though loneliness and loss haunt these pages, Strout also supplies gentle humor and a nourishing dose of hope. People are sustained by the rhythms of ordinary life and the natural wonders of coastal Maine, and even Olive is sometimes caught off guard by life’s baffling beauty.”
- Booklist