My Name is Lucy Barton

Elizabeth Strout First published 2016

About this book

"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"--

Subjects

  • amerikanisches englisch
  • convalescence
  • dysfunctional families
  • estrangement
  • family life
  • fiction
  • fiction, family life
  • fiction / family life / general
  • fiction, family life, general
  • fiction / literary
  • fiction / women
  • large type books
  • mothers and daughters
  • mothers and daughters, fiction
  • new york times bestseller
  • new york times reviewed
  • nyt:hardcover-fiction=2016-01-31