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Olive Kitteridge

This character is an elderly widow who is respected and disliked for her plain manner of speaking and her honesty. She used to be a math teacher. She remarries.

Jack Kennison

This character used to be a Harvard professor. He is a widower who moved to Crosby after a sexual harassment suit. He remarries.

Christopher Kitteridge

This character is a podiatrist in New York. He is married, has two stepchildren, and two children of his own. His mother lives in Crosby.

Suzanne Larkin

This character is a lawyer in the child protection division of the attorney general’s office in Boston. She returns to Crosby when the family home burns down with her father in it. Her mother is in a nursing home.

Kayley Callaghan

This character is an eighth-grade girl whose father died two years ago. She lives with her mother in an apartment, and she...

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