She is widely known for her works in literary fiction and her descriptive characterization. Knitting this powerful narrative together is the brilliant storytelling voice of Lucy herself: keenly observant, deeply human, and truly unforgettable.Elizabeth Strout (born January 6, 1956) is an American novelist and author. 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. Her mother, to whom she hasn’t spoken for many years, comes to see her. Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation.

Now, in My Name Is Lucy Barton, this extraordinary writer shows how a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all - the one between mother and daughter. Her bestselling novels, including Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys, have illuminated our most tender relationships. Your book club must read this book!Ī new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is cause for celebration. This is the novel of a masterful and mature writer in complete control and at the top of her craft. My Name is Lucy Barton is by far her best-published work. Imperfectly.” Elizabeth Strout has been lauded for most of her work and she was spiraled into international renown by her Pulitzer Prize winning Olive Kittredge. As stated perfectly within the book, “This is a story about a mother who loves her daughter.

Strout has written a powerful story told through the prism of a writer discovering her voice. This is not a book easily described and I do not want to attempt to put into words a book that is so beautiful, heartbreaking and emotionally satisfying. Twenty years after my own mother’s death I still feel the pull of that bond playing out in a myriad of ways including my relationship with my grown daughter. My Name is Lucy Barton is a novel that deeply explores the often tangled, frayed and stretched thread that forever binds mothers and daughters. It is a rare book these days that stops me in my tracks, and as I will tell anyone that will listen to me, this book is THAT BOOK. In my quest for book club selections I do read two or three books a week.

On a weekly basis publishers and agents send me more books than I could possibly read.

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