Why read My Name Is Lucy Barton?

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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 AND THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016. A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.

An exquisite story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge

Lucy is recovering from an operation in a New York hospital when she wakes…

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2 authors picked My Name Is Lucy Barton as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Nora Raleigh Baskin

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Here’s is a book book I took out of the library, read, and then had to buy so that it could sit behind me on the shelf.

It is hard to describe Lucy’s voice. Deceptively simple, understated, so deeply personal and reflective that it is hard to believe this book is not a memoir. Lucy’s voice, her experiences, and her emotions blended directly into my mind and into my heart, and stayed with me for days after, as if I had lived them myself.

I fell so deeply in love with Lucy that I quickly read all the other Lucy…

From Nora's 3 favorite reads in 2023.

Donna Koros Stramella

Author

Sometimes a mother fails. In My Name is Lucy Barton, the title character fled her home because of her abusive father. Although her mother loved Lucy and her siblings, she was unable to protect her children. Many years later when Lucy falls ill and her mother visits her, the two reconnect and develop a shared understanding. Strout addresses the imperfection of a mother while retaining the magnetic pull between mother and daughter.

From Donna's list on wildly dissimilar mothers and daughters.