...e hers in a long time. As a fellow reader I'm sure you know there's nothing like discovering a new favorite writer.
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I've recently discovered the works of Elizabeth Strout. I finished "Olive Kitteridge" not too long ago (won the Pulitzer in 2008), and now I'm halfway through "The Burgess Boys." What I absolutely love about Strout's writing is the humanism.
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...a multigenerational family fighting over money to survive. Think "August: Osage County" meets "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" with a touch of "Olive Kitteridge". Would love to f...
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...w I love the rhythms of words), like the tension knowing that sooner or later they're going to get around to offending the particular ethnicity of Olive. Agree with other comments a...
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...arguerite leaned forward.
At this at the end--
That made her think of Olive’s wonderful little dog, Patsy...emi-Jap à tête jaune laineux de ma fille."
The eyes would slide from Olive to Marguerite's head of the y...
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...asked Marguerite.
“Yes,” said Olive. “My father’s almost royalty....right up into a crisp." said Olive.
Olive could beat her in any...“We don’t go to church,” said Olive. “Camille is a Free Thinker.”...bucks.
That made her think of Olive’s wonderful little dog, Patsy...
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...the new little girl, whose name is Olive. “So shiny and straight.”
An...window
And in-flew-enza,” chanted Olive, to which Marguerite, who had...te. “Don’t you ever?”
“Well . . .” Olive’s face grew fox-like, “I used...How?
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...e tea set and set off to the street in search of adventure. They brought Patsy, the small black and white dog, and pulled from the Olive’s garage an old goat cart Olive says belonged to her mama, “B...
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