Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout is a collection of short stories that take place in a small town in Maine, all of which have something to do with the titular character. It's a strong collection, concerned with interiority and trauma response. Olive as a character reminds me of Ramona Quimby, in a series I'm reading with my daughter. Both act out in publicly antisocial ways, which is dealt with predictably by their peers, but which masks their inability to communicate frustration and anxiety. I felt that some stories in the collection forced a cameo from Olive, and that on balance they actually had too many traumatic things to be quite believable, but it was a worthwhile read on the whole.
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