Tuesday, May 5, 2009

A Mother Who Can Throw Her Weight Around



Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout

Olive Kitteridge may not be a character you’ll like, but she’s someone you may like reading about. She’s overbearing, passive-aggressive, aloof, moody and sharp-tongued, but she’s also the one woman in town whose acid-drawn words and irritable wisdom provides the kind of dead-on insight that can make you squirm.

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