Are you reading Olive Kitteridge?

The 2009 Pulitizer Prize for Fiction was awarded to “Olive Kitteridge,” by Elizabeth Strout.

“This collection of 13 short stories set in small-town Maine packs a cumulative emotional wallop, bound together by polished prose and by Olive, the title character, blunt, flawed and fascinating.”–The Pulitzer Prizes, Columbia University

Lincoln County has chosen Olive Kitteridge for the 2009 “One Book, One Community” event.

“One Book, One Community” encourages Lincoln County residents to read and discuss the same book during the fall of 2009. Free paperback copies are available at the Thayne Branch Library and an audiobook version is available for check-out.

Thayne Branch Library will hold their community discussion on Monday, November 9 at 6:30pm in the Thayne Library.  Hope to see you there!

To enrich your reading and discussion, print out these discussion questions:
Olive Kitteridge Discussion Questions

Monday, November 23 at 10AM

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Bring your mid-morning snack and join us for a lively book discussion.

“One Book, One Community” encourages Lincoln County residents  to read and discuss the same book during the fall of 2009.

Book Discussion:  November 5, 6:30 p.m.

Click here for the Book Discussion questions.

Olive Kitteridge

by Elizabeth Strout

Pick up your FREE copy @ the Alpine Branch Library today!!

“Strout makes us experience not only the terrors of change but also the terrifying hope that change can bring: she plunges us into these churning waters and we come up gasping for air.”  The New Yorker

“Funny, wicked and remorseful, Mrs. Kitteridge is a compelling life force, a red-blooded original. When she’s not onstage, we look forward to her return. The book is a page-turner because of her.”  San Francisco ChronicleRecycle!.  Please read & return to the library for someone else to read.

Book Discussion:  November 5, 6:30 p.m.                         

2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction

Olive Kitteridge       

  by Elizabeth Strout

Limited number of paperback copies are available in the Cokeville library.     FREE