The book did make me reflect at times about my relationships, but it did not make as deep a mark that I would want to recommend the book to another person. I think I was expecting a big revelation or some happening turn in the plot, which was not the case. The book has been highly praised for because of its spare prose and deliberate silences. My name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout The memories of the incident set her thinking about the years she spent growing up in Illinois her dysfunctional family about the loves and friendships that have crossed her life and about the developments that seeped into her marriage. Lucy, a writer living in New York, reflects in the later years of her life of the time she had to spend nine weeks in the hospital and her mother, with whom she had broken ties a long time ago, visited her and stayed by her side. Lucy Barton also explores the changes a perfect marriage undergoes with time. My Name is Lucy Barton is a keenly observant narrative of the relationship between a mother and daughter, even after not being in touch for many years, the yearning of a woman to be a writer.
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