Tag: Olive Kitteridge

Inability to communicate: the worst kind of loneliness?

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Version 1.0.0 The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout is the ninth book I have read by Strout. She raises many classic Strout themes: the lives of seemingly ordinary people, how people deal with each other and with their own feelings, the unmet need for intimacy. Many of her stories – think Olive Kitteridge …

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Two more novels where small towns are defining

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Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke is a nicely woven mystery set in rural East Texas.  Two murders occur in just a matter of days in a tiny town called Lark. Are the two crimes related?  That’s just one of the questions being explored by principal character Darren Matthews, an African-American who dropped out of law …

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