My Name is Lucy Barton

Longlisted for the Mann-Booker prize

April Book Selection--Discussion Monday, April 17, 2017

Strout articulates for her readers—albeit often circumspectly, perhaps the only way—

the Gordian knot of family, binding together fear and misery, solace and love…

There is not a scintilla of sentimentality in this exquisite novel.

Instead, in its careful words and vibrating silences, My Name Is Lucy Barton offers us

a rare wealth of emotion, from darkest suffering to…simple joy.

--New York Times Book Review

by Elizabeth Strout