My name is Lucy Barton
a novel
by Elizabeth Strout and Esther Tallada Seco
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Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. 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.
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Mothers and daughters, Fiction, Amerikanisches Englisch, Estrangement, Family Life, FICTION, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2016-01-31, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Dysfunctional families, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Women, Convalescence, Large type books, Fiction, family life, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Fiction, family life, generalShowing 2 featured editions. View all 13 editions?
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"First published in the United States of America by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York 2016"--Title page verso.
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"Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her and a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all--the one between mother and daughter"--
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