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Two days before Kayley begins high school, she rides her bike near the nursing home and feels a longing for Mr. Ringrose's behavior has become abnormal and he is being put in a nursing home. In the last days of summer, Kayley learns from Olive Kitteridge that Mr. Ringrose tells Kayley she is no longer needed for cleaning. One day, she comes home to find her mother sold the piano since she stopped playing it. When her mother eventually finds the envelopes of money, Kayley instead hides it in the piano. Ringrose continue their unspoken arrangement every time she cleans the house. She agrees and later finds an envelope filled with money left for her by Mr. Ringrose watching her, urging her to continue. Ringrose for money, Kayley begins experiencing sexual feelings and touches her breasts.

She begins to find a passion for playing the piano, which her father played. Kayley Callaghan is a fourteen-year-old girl living in Crosby whose father died two years earlier. One of the pregnant guests goes into labor and Olive attempts to drive her to the hospital, but finds herself having to deliver the stranger's baby in the back of her own car. Jack is pulled over by the police and given a ticket for speeding. Jack Kennison, a seventy-four-year-old widower and retired Harvard professor, drives to Portland to buy whiskey to avoid the possibility of running into Olive, who he has since separated from, at the grocery store in Crosby. It follows Olive Kitteridge from her seventies into her eighties. Similar to the first novel, Olive, Again takes the form of 13 short stories that are interrelated but discontinuous in terms of narrative. In November 2019, the novel was selected for the revival of Oprah's Book Club. It is a sequel to Olive Kitteridge (2008), which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The book was published by Random House on October 15, 2019. Olive, Again is a novel by the American author Elizabeth Strout.