My Name Is Lucy Barton

-- Anything Is Possible, Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn?t spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy?s childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy?s life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two daughters. Knitting this powerful narrative together is the brilliant storytelling voice of Lucy herself: keenly observant, deeply human, and truly unforgettable. -- My Name Is Lucy Barton “Spectacular . . . Smart and cagey in every way. It is both a book of withholdings and a book of great openness and wisdom. . . . (Strout) is in supreme and magnificent command of this novel at all times.” -- The Washington Post -- ?Marion Winik, -- ? -- ? -- ? -- ? -- ?Hilary Mantel “Magnificent.”?Ann Patchett