"Strout's understanding of the human condition is capacious."-NPR They will not emerge unscathed"-īook Synopsis NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown-and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart. For the next several months, it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea. As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and longtime friend, William. I liked the book enough to pick up the other books but it’s definitely not a happy story and a little sad here and there.ĭisclosure: This post contains Indiebound affiliate links.About the Book "With her trademark spare, crystalline prose-a voice infused with "intimate, fragile, desperate humanness" (The Washington Post)-Elizabeth Strout once again turns her exquisitely-tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, this time following the indomitable heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton and Oh William! through the early days of the pandemic. There are two other books by this author that include the same characters, Anything is Possible, Oh William! and Lucy by the Sea which just came out. We read this for book club and although it wasn’t enjoyed by all, it gave us plenty to talk about. From the outside looking in, it’s clear that this family has a lot of things to work through but do they want to? In Lucy’s case, yes because she is trying not to repeat the same mistakes with her own children but you get the impression that she’s not succeeding all that well. As Lucy considers the life she’s lived, you as the reader will also consider the choices you’ve made as a wife, mother, sibling. There’s not a lot of action in this story. Growing up in poverty, and being exposed to some strange behavior has caused damage that Lucy does her best to live with, but it’s always there and from her hospital bed she carefully observes her mother at the foot of her bed, wondering how they got there. Lucy and her mother have a strange relationship to say the least. Instead, he pays for Lucy’s mom to show up. Lucy’s husband William is at home with their children, but he, for whatever reason does not like hospital visits and decides not to come.
Her short hospital stay turns into several days which prompts her mother to show up at the hospital. Lucy Barton is hospitalized for an unknown illness which has taken a bad turn.
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