Elizabeth Strout's latest book is a chronicle of a plague year — and also of the main character's growing insights into herself, her family, and their changing relationships during that period.
for this year's Booker Prize), she and her first husband were both newly, unhappily single. Lucy, who overcame a traumatic, impoverished childhood in Amgash, Illinois, to become a writer celebrated for her empathic novels about have-nots and outcasts, was recently widowed; William's vivacious third wife had left him, taking their young daughter with her.
Another pleasure is Lucy's distinctive, plain-spoken narrative voice, which reads as if she were talking to a new friend she's decided to take into her confidence. Lucy is honest and self-deprecating to a fault. With the benefit of hindsight, she marvels at how out of it she was, how little she understood at the start of the pandemic."It's odd how the mind does not take in anything until it can," she says.
On the other hand, he comforts her through panic attacks, takes over the cooking , and thoughtfully orders warm clothes from L.L. Bean to help her through Maine's cold, bleak spring. But slowly, Lucy adjusts to their circumstances. In response to the locals' hostility toward New Yorkers, who they fear have brought the virus with them, Bob Burgess thoughtfully brings them Maine license plates for William's car. A lovely friendship develops between Lucy and Bob over masked walks. Lucy, upset that her daughters have stopped calling her with their troubles, comments,"He made me feel that I mattered.
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