Christopher, meanwhile, grows up to be a podiatrist and gets married twice (once to Suzanne, who leaves him, and another time to Ann, who has two children and later a third). Through the course of the book, Olive Kitteridge retires and Henry has a stroke and later passes away. Henry, meanwhile, is a kind and affable man.

Olive is a difficult and temperamental woman whose father died by suicide. Her husband Henry is a pharmacist, and her son Christopher begins the book as a teenager in high school. Olive Kitteridge is told as a series of short stories involving (sometimes front-and-center, other times only in the periphery) Olive Kitteridge, a math teacher living in the fictional coastal town of Crosby, Maine. (The Detailed Plot Summary is also available, below) The book follows the Kitteridges over a course of decades, and in doing so presents a series of empathetic and honest stories about the people of Crosby and the large and small dramas, heartbreaks and joys in their lives.

I bet a fun way to commit suicide would be to cut in front of her in line, and then go, 'Hey, lady: Relax.'') One of my favorite ever award show jokes is from the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards when John Mulaney describes Frances McDormand thusly: 'Frances McDormand, you are no bullshit. (This is a bit of an aside, but Olive is perfectly cast as Frances McDormand in the HBO series. They have a son, Christopher, who grows up to be a podiatrist. Olive teaches 7th-grade mathematics and Olive's husband, Henry, is a pharmacist. She's prickly, judgmental and unaccommodating.

Olive Kitteridge, Strout's Puliter Prize-winning novel, tells a series of interrelated narratives that involve, sometimes more directly and other times only peripherally, Olive Kitteridge, a woman living in the fictional coastal town of Crosby, Maine.

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