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Olive Kitteridge : Fiction by Elizabeth Strout, Rosa Perez Perez is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Thirteen linked tales from Strout (_Abide with Me_, etc.) present a heart-wrenching, penetrating portrait of ordinary coastal Mainers living lives of quiet grief intermingled with flashes of human connection. The opening Pharmacy focuses on terse, dry junior high-school teacher Olive Kitteridge and her gregarious pharmacist husband, Henry, both of whom have survived the loss of a psychologically damaged parent, and both of whom suffer painful attractions to co-workers. Their son, Christopher, takes center stage in A Little Burst, which describes his wedding in humorous, somewhat disturbing detail, and in Security, where Olive, in her 70s, visits Christopher and his family in New York. Strout's fiction showcases her ability to reveal through familiar details—the mother-of-the-groom's wedding dress, a grandmother's disapproving observations of how her grandchildren are raised—the seeds of tragedy. Themes of suicide, depression, bad communication, aging and love, run through these stories, none more vivid or touching than Incoming Tide, where Olive chats with former student Kevin Coulson as they watch waitress Patty Howe by the seashore, all thr

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Author

Elizabeth Strout, Rosa Perez Perez

Publisher

Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812987638

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.78 / 5 (87,196 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14