Elizabeth Strout wrote about a small Maine town in her Pulitzer Prize-winning 2008 novel "Olive Kitteridge," a lyrical and heartbreaking series of interconnected short stories that revolve around the overbearing title character. Things happen in "Olive Kitteridge": People are married and divorced, they die, have affairs and are held hostage at a hospital by a group looking for drugs. But it isn't the things that happen in the book that made "Olive Kittredge" so special, it's the way people continue to go about their lives the best they can after those things happen.
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