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My Name Is Lucy Barton / Anything is Possible
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Published January 1, 2021
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Elizabeth Strout
53 books15.9k followersElizabeth Strout is the author of several novels, including: Abide with Me, a national bestseller and BookSense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. In 2009 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book Olive Kitteridge. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker. She teaches at the Master of Fine Arts program at Queens University of Charlotte.
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January 4, 2025
I finished this book in one day and then went to write a review and found I had read it 8 years ago!!
It moved me a lot more on the second reading.
The first time I was waylaid by the intergenerational trauma that was uppermost in my mind. Perhaps because I was dealing with this in my work life?
Now a see a much more nuanced look at life.
I love the last line - spoiler alert - all life is amazing.
For the purposes of documentation I am including my original review here:This is essentially a story about families.
The trauma that carries over. The ties that are always part of us, no matter where we roam.
Little snippets of lives.
Conversations and moments.
A nice quick read.
Chance encounters and writers fantasies - that condition of always being on the cusp of writing the masterpiece that everyone will sit up and take notice of.
Lucy Barton struggles with knowing who she is.
Perhaps I wanted more.
It moved me a lot more on the second reading.
The first time I was waylaid by the intergenerational trauma that was uppermost in my mind. Perhaps because I was dealing with this in my work life?
Now a see a much more nuanced look at life.
I love the last line - spoiler alert - all life is amazing.
For the purposes of documentation I am including my original review here:This is essentially a story about families.
The trauma that carries over. The ties that are always part of us, no matter where we roam.
Little snippets of lives.
Conversations and moments.
A nice quick read.
Chance encounters and writers fantasies - that condition of always being on the cusp of writing the masterpiece that everyone will sit up and take notice of.
Lucy Barton struggles with knowing who she is.
Perhaps I wanted more.
Displaying 1 of 1 review