![]() ![]() ![]() In this third Lucy novel, Strout brings her gift for the small scale to a global pandemic. We most recently saw her in Oh William! (2021), in which Lucy joins her ex-husband on an odyssey to meet his estranged half-sister. We first met Lucy in My Name is Lucy Barton (2016), in which a convalescent Lucy comes to terms with her impoverished childhood and an ambivalent relationship with her mother. In Lucy by the Sea, Strout continues the story of one of her most beloved characters against the backdrop of COVID-19. From her debut Amy and Isabelle (1998) to her Pulitzer Prize-winner Olive Kitteridge (2008), Strout depicts a world of interconnected individuals, most of whom reside in small-town Maine. Her interest is in the local and the particular. ![]() Like the works of Alice Munro, Strout’s novels are portraits of unremarkable, profoundly human lives. Elizabeth Strout paints with a fine brush on a small canvas. ![]()
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