Winner Of The Pulitzer Prize, The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Oprah's Book Club pick Olive, Again, Fiction lovers, remember this name- Olive Kitteridge. . . .You'll never forget her. Usa Today Named One Of The Best Book Of The Year By The Washington Post Book World , Usa Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, People, Entertainment Weekly, The Christian Science Monitor, The Plain Dealer, The Atlantic, Rocky Mountain News, Library Journal At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her- a lounge musician haunted by a past romance, a former student who has lost the will to live, Olive's own adult child, who feels tyrannized by her irrational sensitivities, and her husband, Henry, who finds his loyalty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse.