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Curmudgeons in love: Olive Kitteridge is back By Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times © Random House/Tampa Bay Times/TNS Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout “Olive, Again” by Elizabeth Strout; Random House (289 pages, $27) A cranky old woman living in a small town in Maine might not sound like the richest subject for a fiction writer. But the indomitable Olive Kitteridge burst into life in Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2008 book named for her, and in an HBO miniseries based on it that won eight Emmy awards. And now she’s back, thank Godfrey, as she might say, in “Olive, Again.” The book is a collection of linked short stories, like Olive Kitteridge and Strout’s also terrific 2017 book “Anything Is Possible.” It’s a form that allows the author to bend time and to explore the lives of what might seem to be minor characters, with all of the 13 stories linking in some way to Olive.

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