![]() ![]() ![]() I understand this book has been made into an HBO miniseries, something that makes me wonder if, like the characters in the book, we all enjoy watching other people’s hardships in an overwhelming surge of schadenfreude. It can be claustrophobic, everyone knowing your every slip-up, knowing your parents for years, guessing at your sex life or job history or minor problems.īut not EVERYONE in town needs to be gassed. ![]() I know, having been raised in a small Massachusetts town. Life is often dark and cheerless in small Maine towns. All children are desperate, given to dying in horrible ways like anorexia, or car accidents, or are homicidal and stab a woman 29 times. All men are grey, uninspiring, whiny, kind, have lovely hands. Her son hates her.Īll other mothers in the book are a. Olive is unlikeable, changeable, with a horrid temper, but who is given to flashes of wisdom. Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout, tells the life of a difficult woman and her life in a small town in Maine. ![]()
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