5/20/2023 0 Comments Elizabeth strout lucy barton![]() ![]() ![]() It is a story full of silences just as families are full of silences. Nor do Lucy and her mother discuss her father’s temper or the reason for her own deep terror of snakes. Much in this goes go unsaid, including the words “I love you”. These experiences – half remembered, rarely discussed, always there – Lucy carries with her into marriage and life in New York. She grew up on the fringes of a small town in Illinois and spent some years living in the garage of a great uncle. ![]() Lucy’s childhood was one of considerable poverty. It is also a story of beginnings and the way people are shaped by their backgrounds. My Name Is Lucy Barton encompasses Lucy’s marriage and her path to becoming a writer, but it is in the intimacy of these five days, with Lucy’s mother taking catnaps in the chair beside her bed, that we come to understand the nature of the bond between them. ![]()
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