In the play, Linney speaks in both characters’ voices. This novel is beautifully written, with a powerful simplicity that will last with the reader. In Strout’s novel, Lucy Barton wakes from surgery to find her estranged mother by her bedside. The story is told by the daughter, whose mother shares insightful stories about various neighors and relatives, while observing Lucy’s cholces in life that have separated her from her family. Lucy is having a slow recovery from appendicitis in the mid 1980’s, and her mother is visiting her after an estrangement. This is the story of a mother and daughter. Strout’s newest book, My Name is Lucy Barton, is a quick read that will not disappoint. This critically acclaimed book was also adapted into an Emmy award winning HBO miniseries starring Francis McDormand, Richard Jenkins, and Bill Murray. This fascinating story by Pulitzer prize winner Elizabeth Strout is about family, love, disappointment, depression, and the human condition. The chapters featuring various colorful characters as townspeople read like short stories, but all of them involve Olive to some degree, and the result is the telling of Olive’s struggles in her life. Olive Kitteridge, the novel’s title character is a no-nonsense retired schoolteacher married to a idealistic retired pharmacist in the small town of Crosby, Maine.
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