![]() ![]() My Name is Lucy Barton is a brilliant, evocative novel built on a simple premise. Ultimately, I picked up this book because the third Amgash book, Oh, William!, is among the 2022 Booker Longlist, which I am reading for a #BookeroftheMonth bookclub and I can not fathom reading books out of order. In fact, I had no idea she was the author of Olive Kitteridge. I had never read Elizabeth Strout prior to this book. Knitting this powerful narrative together is the brilliant storytelling voice of Lucy herself: keenly observant, deeply human, and truly unforgettable. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy’s childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy’s life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two daughters. ![]() ![]() Her mother, to whom she hasn’t spoken for many years, comes to see her. Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. ![]() A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys. ![]()
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