
My Name Is Lucy Barton
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Kimberly Farr
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By:
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Elizabeth Strout
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys.
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The New York Times Book Review • NPR • BookPage • LibraryReads • Minneapolis Star Tribune • St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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. Knitting this powerful narrative together is the brilliant storytelling voice of Lucy herself: keenly observant, deeply human, and truly unforgettable.
Praise for My Name Is Lucy Barton
“A quiet, sublimely merciful contemporary novel about love, yearning, and resilience in a family damaged beyond words.”—The Boston Globe
“It is Lucy’s gentle honesty, complex relationship with her husband, and nuanced response to her mother’s shortcomings that make this novel so subtly powerful.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“A short novel about love, particularly the complicated love between mothers and daughters, but also simpler, more sudden bonds . . . It evokes these connections in a style so spare, so pure and so profound the book almost seems to be a kind of scripture or sutra, if a very down-to-earth and unpretentious one.”—Newsday
“Spectacular . . . Smart and cagey in every way. It is both a book of withholdings and a book of great openness and wisdom. . . . [Strout] is in supreme and magnificent command of this novel at all times.”—Lily King, The Washington Post
“An aching, illuminating look at mother-daughter devotion.”—People
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Critic reviews
"This story of family, poverty, aspirations, and obstacles is immediately gripping, thanks to the combination of Strout's high-quality prose and Kimberly Farr's nearly flawless performance." (AudioFile)
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The language is simple and hence uncomplicated. Complicated enough is the inference of the longing to belong, to mean something to another - ones place even - and all this the author manages with simplicity and composure. Dignity.
Does this story have gravitational pull for me because here is a woman addressing her life with no fear for the eventual judgement? She realizes she is being judged and measured (like the encounter with a male figure while away in school, to name but one instance) but we see her lose her fear of this and in this she is a modern hero. Afterall, are not the vast swathes of Instagram culture an appeal to be seen in the favorable light, curated and varnished so that the judgement won't lead to being cancelled, or cast aside?
The performance allowed me to believe I was hearing the authors voice and that to me is in this type of literature a plus.
A real story.
A story of all the places loves resides in
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Exceptional
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Good storyline
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If you like depressing stories
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A story for writers of stories
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Poignant and beautiful
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Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
What a disappointment. It seems unfinished. I don't think she spent a lot of time on this novel.If you’ve listened to books by Elizabeth Strout before, how does this one compare?
"The Burgess Boys" and "Olive Kittredge" are two of my most favorite books. "My name is Lucy Barton" doesn't come close to the quality of those two books.Meh!
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Not her usual
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Not worth your time
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Don’t consume unless very happy
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