With her fifth novel Strout has created a dynamic, engaging storyteller in the eponymous Lucy, a successful writer and mother of two-but, to her own mother, still just a defiant child.
Elizabeth Strout, "My Name Is Lucy Barton" Politics & Prose, Washington, D.C. January 16, 2016 See also: Tayla Burney, Elizabeth Strout On Depicting Poverty In Literature, The Rush To Judgment And The Role Of Literature