![]() ![]() The story is told through the narrator’s point of view in the same fashion one would write a memoir about his or her own life. ![]() Every story told in the book is written as a past memory and Lucy intertwines her own reflections as she tells her story. Each of the short chapters gives the reader a deeper understanding of who Lucy Barton is as a woman and who she was as a child. Her story is one of love and loneliness, of outcasts and acceptance, of fear of dying and living life, and of relationships. Lucy is both the main character and the narrator of her story. This hospital stay is a parallel to the years of struggle that Lucy has lived through as they both take a long time to heal. Lucy was in the hospital because she was not recovering after her appendix was removed. A key focus of the book is the relationship between a mother and her daughter, which is seen when Lucy’s mother visits her in the hospital for five days. Paperback: 224 pages, November 29, 2016, ISBN-13: 978-0812979527Įlizabeth Strout’s new book, My Name is Lucy Barton, begins with, “There was a time, and it was many years ago now, when I had to stay in a hospital for almost nine weeks.” This nine-week hospital stay is woven throughout the whole book as Lucy’s story unfolds. ![]()
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