My Name Is Lucy Barton

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By Elizabeth Strout

Lucy Barton is recovering slowly in a New York hospital from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, whom she has not spoken to in years, arrives without warning and sits at the end of the bed for five days.

They talk about people from the town Lucy grew up poor in, and not about anything else. A short novel about what a mother and daughter can say to each other and what they cannot.

First published 2016