Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Olive Kitteridge is a 7^th grade math teacher in Crosby, Maine.  She is the cause of her son moving across the country and into therapy; she causes her pharmacist husband, Henry, to retreat into himself, and she drives an emotional bulldozer through the heart of her small town. She is a character in each of the thirteen inter-connected short stories in this book, which spans 30 years.  “Hell. We’re always alone. Born alone. Die alone,” she says. Even though she is only a peripheral character in some of the stories, she will be the character you never forget.

 

288 pages.