"Olive Kitteridge has returned, as indomitable as ever, 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."--Provided by publisher

"Olive Kitteridge has returned, as indomitable as ever, 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." -- Provided by publisher.

A sequel to Olive Kitteridge finds Olive struggling to understand herself while bonding with a teen suffering from loss, a woman who gives birth unexpectedly, a nurse harboring a longtime crush and a lawyer who resists an unwanted inheritance.

"Koli͡uchai͡a, rezkai͡a, stoĭkai͡a k peremenam, Olivii͡a Kitteridzh - voploshchenie zhiznennoĭ sily. Novyĭ sbornik rasskazov pro Olivii͡u Pulitt͡serovskogo laureata Ėlizabet Straut. Olivii͡a pytaetsi͡a poni͡atʹ ne tolʹko sebi͡a, svoi chuvstva, no i vse, chto proiskhodit vokrug nee, zhiznʹ li͡udeĭ. Budʹ to devochka-podrostok, osoznavai͡a svoi͡u seksualʹnostʹ; ili molodai͡a zhenshchina, kotorai͡a sobralasʹ rozhatʹ v razgar prazdnika; tridt͡satʹ let i vdrug uznal neveroi͡atnoe o svoikh docheri͡akh; ili sobstvennyĭ syn, kotoryĭ ne ponimaet ee. Olivii͡a, s ee neveroi͡atno chuvstvennym i͡umora, smeshit, pugaet, trogaet, vdokhnovli͡aet. V sovremennoĭ mirovoĭ literature ne tak mnogo geroev stolʹ i͡arkikh i stolʹ znachitelʹnykh." --Title page verso.

En Crosby, un pequeño pueblo en la costa de Maine, no suceden muchas cosas. Y sin embargo, las historias sobre la vida de las personas que viven allí contienen un mundo entero. Está Olive Kitteridge, una maestra jubilada, irascible, indecorosa, de honestidad inquebrantable. Tiene setenta años y aunque es más dura que una roca, sintoniza con los matices del alma humana. Está Jack Kennison, antiguo profesor de Harvard, que busca desesperadamente la cercanía de esa extraña mujer, Olive, siempre tan Olive. Su relación tiene la fuerza de quienes se aferran a la vida. Una novela conmovedora que habla del amor y la pérdida, de la madurez y la soledad, y de esos inesperados instantes de felicidad.

"In this first study of novelist Elizabeth Strout's bestselling works, Katherine Montwieler reveals how Strout's voice, characters, and themes generate a powerful empathic response among mainstream readers-mostly women-that elite scholars undervalue at their own peril. This accessible companion also includes an exclusive interview with Strout"--