It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.
This is the story about people who live in a small town in Maine - people who might seem ordinary. Olive is a character who's as bad as you'd be if you let yourself - and that's partly what drives the book: You can't wait to see what she's going to do next. She imagines her new daughter-in-law saying, "I must be losing my mind." She takes a magic marker and draws a black line down the arm of a beige sweater.
What is she doing? She's looking through her new daughter-in-law's closet. Picture this: Olive on the day of her son's wedding. Here's a perfect example of a character you'd never be friends with, but whom you can't stop reading about: Her name is Olive Kitteridge, and she's the title character of Elizabeth Strout's book of short stories. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that. Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book.
She calls and says, "This is Melissa," and whoever answers says, "Same thing?" She lives in Manhattan, where almost every night she orders an R-5 - that's Revolution Diet Number 5 - vegetables and tofu, from Empire Szechuan. Melissa Bank is the author of The Wonder Spot and The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing.
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