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One Book, One Bedford

2010 Community-Wide Reading Event

OLIVE KITTERIDGE

by Elizabeth Strout

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Olive Kitteridge focuses on the small town of Crosby, Maine, and tells 13 stories about the people who live there. All the stories are interlinked through the presence of the central larger-than-life character of Olive Kitteridge.

 

Olive Kitteridge was selected for its small town New England setting and powerful writing. It is easy to read, but impossible to forget. Readers typically have very strong reactions to the book, which should make for some lively discussions throughout Bedford.

 

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.

For more information, visit: Elizabeth Strout's Official Website.