My Name Is Lucy Barton

A General Fiction Novel by Elizabeth Strout

Book 1 of the Amgash Series

Subgenres:

Family Saga,
Literary Fiction

Published 2016

Length 181 pages

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Mother-daughter bonds tested by old wounds and quiet longing
Hospital-room conversations that reveal buried family secrets
Narratives driven by a sharp, vulnerable first-person voice

Publisher Description

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.

Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her.

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.

Knitting this powerful narrative together is the brilliant storytelling voice of Lucy herself: keenly observant, deeply human, and truly unforgettable.

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