My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth StroutMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Lucy Barton is a writer. Her story starts as a "sort of" journal that she started as she was confined to the hospital for nine weeks due to a complicated surgery. During that time she receives a visit from her estranged mother and they were able to make a peace with each other.
Her story is very emotional making you actually believe that Elizabeth Strout must have herself endured poverty and abuse. The relationships of life are examined; parents, siblings, relatives, husbands, children and friends. The writing is a gentle matter of fact.
There was always a "thing", her words, in her background. Was it abuse? The reader is left to accept that theory or puzzle further.
The ending may have been a bit of a letdown, but then again, whose lives end on big highs.
A thoroughly engrossing read.
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