![]() ![]() ![]() Lucy, who overcame a traumatic, impoverished childhood in Amgash, Illinois, to become a writer celebrated for her empathic novels about have-nots and outcasts, was recently widowed William's vivacious third wife had left him, taking their young daughter with her. When we last checked in on Lucy in Oh William! (which was just shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize), she and her first husband were both newly, unhappily single. In Lucy By the Sea, Elizabeth Strout's fourth novel since 2016 about writer Lucy Barton, we find the hyper-sensitive and supremely sympathetic heroine at sea, awash in confusion as her world - and the world - changes drastically, seemingly overnight. Oh Lucy! What were you thinking, fleeing the comfortable Manhattan apartment you shared with your late, doting second husband to ride out the pandemic with your philandering ex in a remote seaside cabin in Maine? ![]()
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