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Olive Kitteridge is a 2008 novel or short story cycle by American author Elizabeth Strout.
Step into the richly textured world of Olive Kitteridge, a novel-in-stories that follows the life of a fierce, complex, and deeply human woman navigating aging, relationships, and the quiet dramas of everyday life in a small Maine town.
Olive is no heroine in the traditional sense — she is opinionated, prickly, often harsh — and yet Strout renders her with such compassion and honesty that she becomes a mirror for our own vulnerabilities, regrets, and courage. Through Olive, we explore what it means to grow older, to confront change, and to reckon with the shadows and beauty of our lived experience.
This is a story that honors the contradictions of womanhood — the sorrows we carry, the strength we forge, and the quiet wisdom that emerges with time. A perfect read for those walking the Crone path, who know that becoming is never finished — and that grace often shows up in the most unexpected ways.
About the Author
Elizabeth Strout is the author of Abide with Me, a national bestseller and Book Sense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine. She is on the faculty of the MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina, and lives in New York City.
Class Begins: Tuesday, August 19th
Time: 6:00PM - 7:30PM (Mountain Time)
Facilitated by Kaye Chatterton, Director of the CAW Wisdom Institute
Capacity: 15
We’ll be exploring a new book each month, with each session dedicated to a different title.
Next class: Sep 16, 2025
Title: The Number One Ladies Detective Agency
Author: Andrew McCall
Published: 2003, 256 pages
Email us with suggestions, croneawakeningwisdom.@gmail.com
Recommend purchase of used books from Ebay.com/ or your public library.