It's not fair! A line we learn to say with a pout as toddlers; scream in frustrated rage as teenagers and finally get to understand in full murky depth in our later years. This book could easily be re-titled: The unfairness of life, as witnessed (and contributed to) by Olive Kitteridge. It's a collection of stories linked by Olive's hefty presence as she goes about her life in a small coastal town in Maine. Olive is without doubt a difficult woman, who ought to live alone with nothing but a doughnut for company, but instead she is married to Henry who is the nicest man in town and shows her nothing but love. He is a pharmacist who could have taught Dale Carnegie how to win friends and influence people and all Olive can see is a man who is soft in the middle and far too tolerant of dim-witted people. What does he ever see in her? Each of the chapters introduces a different set of people with their own troubles and conflicted loyalties and in most cases the go...