The Missing Link Project: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout is a fine, fine writer, and I'm not just saying that because she wrote a nice blurb for my book, In an Uncharted Country. Her recent book, Olive Kitteridge, won the Pulitzer Prize this year, and deservedly so. It's a finely crafted novel in stories, each of which is about—to greater or lesser degrees—the seventy-year-old Olive, a woman who doesn't seem very likeable, at least at first. As the stories go by, though, and we anticipate her next appearance—sometimes she doesn't s...