From Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown—and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart.
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| Lucy by the Sea |
“ No novelist working moment has Strout’s extraordinary capacity for radical empathy... May droves of compendiums come to feel enlarged, assured, and authentically upraised by Lucy’s story. ” — The Boston Globe
With her trademark spare, liquid prose — a voice invested with “ intimate, fragile, hopeless humanness ”( The Washington Post) — Elizabeth Strout turns her exquisitely tuned eye to the inner workings of the mortal heart, following the insuperable heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton through the early days of the epidemic.
As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is pulled from her life in Manhattan and whisked down to a small city in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the coming several months, it’s just Lucy, William, and their complex history together in a little house nestled against the temperamental, swirling ocean.
Rich with empathy and emotion, Lucy by the Sea vividly captures the fear and struggles that come with insulation, as well as the stopgap, peace, and possibilities that those long, quiet days can inspire. At the heart of this story are the deep mortal connections that unite us indeed when we’re piecemeal the pain of a cherished son’s suffering, the emptiness that comes from the death of a loved one, the pledge of a new fellowship, and the comfort of an old, enduring love.
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