Each day leading up to the March 12 announcement of the 2008 NBCC awards, we highlight one of the thirty finalists. Today, NBCC board member Lizzie Skurnick discusses Elizabeth Strout’s
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March 11, 2009
2008 Fiction Finalist Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
By Lizzie Skurnick