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Motherless Child
2019
First Published
4.08
Average Rating
300
Number of Pages
A short story published in the New Yorker August 5-12, 2019. It is about Olive Kitteredge, a woman whom Strout has written about in other books, having a visit by her son, Christopher.
Avg Rating
4.08
Number of Ratings
39
5 STARS
36%
4 STARS
46%
3 STARS
13%
2 STARS
0%
1 STARS
5%
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Author

Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout
Author · 15 books
Elizabeth Strout is the author of several novels, including: Abide with Me, a national bestseller and BookSense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. In 2009 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book Olive Kitteridge. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker. She teaches at the Master of Fine Arts program at Queens University of Charlotte.
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