{"id":960,"date":"2011-06-30T22:42:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T22:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=960"},"modified":"2015-04-08T18:01:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:01:49","slug":"oliver-kitteridge-by-elizabeth-strout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-963 size-full\" title=\"Olive Kitteridge\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Olive-Kitteridge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More a series of short stories than a novel, this work by Elizabeth Strout uses vignettes to bring to life the town of Crosby, Maine.\u00a0 Olive Kitteridge is a retired math teacher married to Henry, a retired pharmacist.\u00a0 Her relationship with her son, Christopher, is complicated.\u00a0\u00a0 Olive is a woman of strong opinions who speaks her mind.\u00a0 Her life has its share of sorrows, as do those of the other townspeople featured in the various chapters.\u00a0 Though she isn&#8217;t always likable, Olive is nonetheless entirely genuine.\u00a0 Elizabeth Strout has done a remarkable job of bringing Olive to life, while also ably exploring themes of infidelity, suicide, grief, and the possibility of growth.\u00a0 Not your typical novel, but well worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More a series of short stories than a novel, this work by Elizabeth Strout uses vignettes to bring to life the town of Crosby, Maine.\u00a0 Olive Kitteridge is a retired math teacher married to Henry, a retired pharmacist.\u00a0 Her relationship with her son, Christopher, is complicated.\u00a0\u00a0 Olive is a woman of strong opinions who speaks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=960\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-lois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}