NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced
couple stuck together during lockdown--and the love, loss, despair, and
hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart.
"Strout's understanding of the human condition is capacious."--NPR
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ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The
New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Entertainment Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle,
NPR, Time, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor,
PopSugar, She Reads**
With her trademark spare, crystalline prose--a voice infused with
"intimate, fragile, desperate humanness" (The Washington
Post)--Elizabeth Strout turns her exquisitely tuned eye to the inner
workings of the human heart, following the indomitable heroine of My
Name Is Lucy Barton through the early days of the pandemic.
As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her
life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her
ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the next several
months, it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a
little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea.
Rich with empathy and emotion, Lucy by the Sea vividly captures the
fear and struggles that come with isolation, as well as the hope, peace,
and possibilities that those long, quiet days can inspire. At the heart
of this story are the deep human connections that unite us even when
we're apart--the pain of a beloved daughter's suffering, the emptiness
that comes from the death of a loved one, the promise of a new
friendship, and the comfort of an old, enduring love.
Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize
