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Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge.

She is a force of nature in a small coastal Maine town. A retired seventh-grade math teacher "who all the kids were scared of." Plainspoken, dry. Opinionated, moody, often furious. Funny (especially when she doesn't say what she's thinking). Smart. Strong. Bull-headed, cruel. Admirable, unlikable, likable. So impossibly flawed and achingly human it hurts.

EXCERPT: Get introduced to 'Olive Kitteridge'

You'll never forget her.

Kudos to Elizabeth Strout (Amy and Isabelle), who not only has created a sui generis character in Olive but has done so in a brilliantly revealing way. In this "Novel in Stories," Olive emerges kaleidoscopically, seen through the eyes of her kind pharmacist husband, her unhappy son, her longtime neighbors, her former students.

And, in the best of these 13 tales, through her own eyes. Because, like most of us, Olive cannot see the forest for the trees. When decades of denial about her own failures as a mother give way to grudging self-knowledge in the book's final pages, see if you can keep tears from stinging your eyes. By the end of Olive Kitteridge, you'll be madly in love with an old, overweight widow and hoping she lives forever.

There is so much to admire here. Strout's craftsmanship — the way she constructs her stories with rich irony and moments of genuine surprise and intense emotion — is first rate. In several tales, Olive is at the periphery, and other memorable characters steal the spotlight.

So Olive Kitteridge is also a portrait of a town and its people, of straying husbands and the wives who forgive them; of mothers who love their sons in all the wrong ways; of aging men and women facing the end, almost ready to let go, yet wanting to hold on.

Glorious, powerful stuff.

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