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Olive Kitteridge Fans, you will not be disappointed when you have a chance to meet up with Olive, again.

Crotchety, stubborn, judgmental and ultimately empathetic to others…Olive, I have missed you. Just like Olive, herself, these interlinked stories are surprising, unsettling, humorous, and very human.

The struggles with loss, loneliness, remorse, and sorrow are matters which none of us may escape.

This is Crosby, Maine, the small coastal town where our old friend Olive Kittridge lives. In reality it could be anywhere, but of course it wouldn’t be the same unless Olive was there. She’ll tell you exactly what she thinks about you in brutally honest words.

She’s not the best wife or mother and honestly, she can be pretty brash, but it becomes obvious, though, that in spite of the things she says, she cares.

Welcome back, Olive.

Regarding the author, Elizabeth Strout is an exquisite storyteller, subtle and nuanced, who gets to the core of a person and a community with a simplicity that is breathtaking, and does so with grace, humanity and compassion. Her portrait of Olive is outstanding, multilayered and complex, in the way she depicts Olive, getting older, more invisible, lonelier, but still striving to live, connect and learn, about herself and others.

This is a profoundly moving novel, captivating in its portrayal of the everyday ordinariness and extraordinariness of its characters, an approach that packs a punch in its gut-wrenching emotional honesty.

Simply brilliant and highly recommended.

If you haven’t read Olive Kitteridge, /review/show... please read that one first, even though this could be read as a stand-alone �� still even reading this one years after reading Olive Kitteridge, the characters came back to me as if I had never left them.