My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout, 193 pages.In this spare and beautiful book, successful author Barton reflects on her troubled childhood, her crumbling marriage and her relationships with her daughters and her mother while hospitalized and slowly recovering from an infection she develops after surgery. I listened to this 2016 novel after reading and enjoying the equally brilliant collection of stories from this year, Anything Can Happen. The stories in ACH were built around minor characters from Lucy Barton and people who knew her. A wonderful book.
No comments:
Post a Comment