![]() Hit.” Reading about her life, you feel that her poor, longsuffering husband would be better off dead. ![]() She steals one of her daughter-in-law’s shoes and a bra and marks up one of her sweaters at the wedding reception. “Even more, she doesn’t like being with people.” She’s concerned that her exercise regimen might “make her life longer.” She visits an acquaintance “hoping to feel better by knowing the woman suffered.” She is “lightened in spirit” to learn of her ancestors’ history of “scalpings, freezing winters with no food, barns burning from a lightning flash, children dying left and right.” She hates both her son’s wives whenever they show the slightest bit of affection for him. ![]() Her husband brings her flowers and embraces her, but she only “waits for the hug to end.” She doesn’t like to be alone. Olive’s outlook on life is so dark she spreads unhappiness wherever she goes. This book won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. ![]()
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