Olive Kitteridge
by Strout Elizabeth.
Another fantastic Pulitzer Prize winner. This 2009 award winner highlights gossip, family betrayal and grief as small town themes that are linked brilliantly by Olive whose difficult temperament but profound empathy provides the perfect anchor for a windswept locale.
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Submitted on Tuesday 14th Jul 2009 by Eugenie
Rated 9 / 10Dark complex subplots are cleverly embellished with small town intrigue. A quintessential coastal town in Maine, USA, serves as the windswept landscape for the melting pot dynamics: namely, family betrayal and grief. Strout masterfully utilises the structure of the short story to thrust the reader into the pivotal events that highlight messy lives. Olive, with her profound empathetic nature provides the anchor for the town's revolving stories.