![]() ![]() Jack called his daughter, Cassie, who lived in San Francisco and with whom he had not had a relationship since she came out as gay and he did not accept her. In Portland, he reflected on his past, particularly his relationship with his late wife, Betsy, with whom he had strained relations towards the end of her life after an affair with another professor became public. The pair was beginning a romance, but Olive suddenly stopped answering his calls and emails. In the first chapter, “Arrested,” Jack Kennison, a former Harvard professor in his seventies, drove to Portland, an hour away, to buy whiskey in order to avoid Olive Kitteridge at the grocery store. It is told in the third person, but each chapter focuses on one character, whose thoughts the narrator presents. Olive, Again is divided into thirteen discontinuous yet interrelated chapters, each of which could function as a standalone short story. ![]() The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Strout, Elizabeth. ![]()
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