My Name Is Lucy Barton
by Elizabeth Strout · 2016
Literary Fiction · ranked #88 in category
Lucy Barton lies in a New York hospital recovering from a procedure that has unexpectedly gone wrong. Her estranged mother comes to sit with her and they talk — about people from home, about almost nothing — for five days. Strout's novel about memory, poverty, shame and the impossibility of escaping where you came from is compressed to something very like perfection.
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