Lydia Taft Pratt Library Book Club - Olive Kitteridge

Past event
Sep 23, 2024, 6:30 to 8 PM

Join the Lydia Taft Pratt Library Book Club as we discuss the book *Olive Kitteridge* by Elizabeth Strout.

Everyone is welcome at the book club! Happening at Lydia Taft Pratt Library at 150 West Street in West Dummerston Center.

Call or email for more information: 802-258-9878 or dummerstonvtlibrary@gmail.com.

Copies of the book are available at the library.

From Goodreads:

"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition – its conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires.

At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, 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.

As the townspeople grapple with their problems, mild and dire, Olive is brought to a deeper understanding of herself and her life – sometimes painfully, but always with ruthless honesty."

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150 West Street in West Dummerston Village

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