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My Name Is Lucy Barton

by Elizabeth Strout

2016 · literary fiction · adult

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Set in 1 place · 1 primary
Sense of Place
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"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 and a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all--the one between mother and daughter"--

Set in

  • ★
    New York City · United States
    Hospital stay, 1980s NYC
    ★ primary

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