My Name Is Lucy Barton

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys. Soon to be a Broadway play starring Laura Linney produced by Manhattan Theatre Club and London Theatre Company • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The New York Times Book Review • NPR • BookPage • LibraryReads • Minneapolis Star Tribune • St. Louis Post-Dispatch 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. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy’s childhood in Amgash; Illinois; seems to reconnect them; but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy’s life: her escape from her troubled family; her desire to become a writer; her marriage; her love for her two daughters. Knitting this powerful narrative together is the brilliant storytelling voice of Lucy herself: keenly observant; deeply human; and truly unforgettable. Praise for My Name Is Lucy Barton “A quiet; sublimely merciful contemporary novel about love; yearning; and resilience in a family damaged beyond words.”—The Boston Globe “It is Lucy’s gentle honesty; complex relationship with her husband; and nuanced response to her mother’s shortcomings that make this novel so subtly powerful.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A short novel about love; particularly the complicated love between mothers and daughters; but also simpler; more sudden bonds . . . It evokes these connections in a style so spare; so pure and so profound the book almost seems to be a kind of scripture or sutra; if a very down-to-earth and unpretentious one.”—Newsday “Spectacular . . . Smart and cagey in every way. It is both a book of withholdings and a book of great openness and wisdom. . . . [Strout] is in supreme and magnificent command of this novel at all times.”—Lily King; The Washington Post “An aching; illuminating look at mother-daughter devotion.”—People