olive kitteridge

Her Town Popular culture tends to portray small towns as places where everyone knows everything about everyone else.  Every scandal, misfortune or eccentricity is passed through the small grapevine until nothing is secret.  Olive Kitteridge lives in a small town and through her eyes and her life we come to understand just how much people do not know about those among whom they have lived their whole lives. Olive Kitteridge is an interestingly presented novel.  Each chapter is its own vignette, telling a small slice of the life of one person, couple or family.  Sometimes the reader is learning things [...]