Readers will be happy to see some of the characters from Olive Kitteridge, and even characters from Strout’s other novels, make an appearance in this new set of stories. We learn something more about Olive through other characters’ perceptions of her and their interactions with her. But this is still Olive’s story, and even when she is not the focus, Strout allows us to see her from a different perspective. Strout has explained her reasons for giving readers brief respites from Olive: “Olive is a lot to take,” Strout says. Even when she is not the focus of the story, Olive makes an appearance, sometimes in a significant way, sometimes peripherally. Other stories focus on Olive’s friends and neighbors in Crosby, Maine. It follows the same format as Olive Kitteridge-linked stories, each chapter essentially a short story about a different set of characters. Olive, Again picks up where Olive Kitteridge left off. They initially connect through their grief, but now a romance is blossoming. Here we go.’”Īt the end of Olive Kitteridge, readers left a recently-widowed Olive lying next to Jack Kennison, a widower who befriends Olive. All of a sudden I just saw Olive driving into the marina as an older woman, and I thought, ‘Uh oh.
A few years ago I had the weekend to myself, and I went to a cafe to sit. She’s Olive and she has to be contended with. In a recent interview with Maris Kreizman for The Wall Street Journal Magazine, Strout said: “I never intended to write a sequel, but she just showed up again. She had no plans to write about Olive again. In fact, in the ten years since she wrote Olive Kitteridge, Strout had moved on to other things, including writing three more novels. Strout had no trouble letting go of Olive after Olive Kitteridge. Imagine my delight to find that this new book is an even more engaging, moving, and meaningful read than the original. Now, Olive Kitteridge returns in Strout’s seventh and most recent novel, Olive, Again. Readers and viewers alike were delighted by the character of Olive. In 2015, the book was adapted into an award-winning miniseries with Frances McDormand playing the title role of Olive, a character who seems to have been written with McDormand in mind. Elizabeth Strout’s third novel, Olive Kitteridge, was published in 2008 and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2009.
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