Ep 762 - Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout

Overdue by Andrew Cunningham and Craig Getting

Aug 10, 202601:10:29Arts

Is it a novel? A collection of stories? A story cycle? A monograph?? It doesn't matter. This one's an award-winner. Strout's a masterful episodic storyteller, diving quickly into the deep end with characters we've met ju...

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