Olive Kitteridge - A Different Road Summary & Analysis

Elizabeth Strout
This Study Guide consists of approximately 26 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Olive Kitteridge.

Olive Kitteridge - A Different Road Summary & Analysis

Elizabeth Strout
This Study Guide consists of approximately 26 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Olive Kitteridge.
This section contains 385 words
(approx. 1 page at 400 words per page)
Buy the Olive Kitteridge Study Guide

A Different Road Summary

Henry is sixty-eight years old while Olive is sixty-nine. An event occurs that change Henry and Olive forever. Their son is now living in California with his wife. Cynthia suggests to Olive that they have crisis counseling because they've change since the event in question.

On their drive home from having dinner with friends, Olive has an urgent need to use the bathroom. She makes Henry pull up to the hospital. When she tells the nurse she had an explosive bowel movement after eating dinner, the nurse urges her to see the doctor because she might have a food allergy. A lady the previous night died of a food allergy.

Two men invade the hospital to get drugs. The criminals threaten to shoot them in the head if Olive and Henry don't do what they tell them to do...

(read more from the A Different Road Summary)

This section contains 385 words
(approx. 1 page at 400 words per page)
Buy the Olive Kitteridge Study Guide
Copyrights
BookRags
Olive Kitteridge from BookRags. (c)2024 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved.