"My Name is Lucy Barton" by Elizabeth Strout. ****
- Audiobook
- US author
- Originally published January 2016
- Review: Elizabeth Strout seems to occupy a unique niche. Her stark prose pokes and prods until the reader must sit up and take notice. As the closing line asserts, "this is life". The story emerges from the hospital bed of the narrator. It is a perfect setting for the hurt and healing which occurs there. A complex past catches up to, overwhelms, and then moves on for the patient and the reader. Indeed, this is life!
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