Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Olive, Again, an Oprah’s Book Club pick; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name is Lucy Barton, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; The Burgess Boys, named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and NPR; Abide with Me, a national bestseller; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the International Dublin Literary Award, and the Orange Prize. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine. Elizabeth Strout lives in New York City.
“A quiet, sublimely merciful contemporary novel about love,
yearning, and resilience in a family damaged beyond words.”—The
Boston Globe
“Sensitive, deceptively simple . . . [Elizabeth] Strout captures
the pull between the ruthlessness required to write without
restraint and the necessity of accepting others’ flaws. 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. . . . My Name Is Lucy Barton—like all of
Strout’s fiction—is more complex than it first appears, and all the
more emotionally persuasive for it.”—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.”—Newsday
“Spectacular . . . Smart and cagey in every way . . . 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.”—The Washington Post
“An aching, illuminating look at mother-daughter
devotion.”—People
“This slim, perceptive novel packs more sentiment and pain into its
unsparingly honest and forthright prose than novels two and three
times as long. Strout . . . has always awed us with her ability to
put into words the mysterious and unfathomable ways in which people
cherish each other.”—Chicago Tribune
“Lucy Barton is . . . potent with distilled emotion. Without a
hint of self-pity, Strout captures the ache of loneliness we all
feel sometimes.”—Time
“There is not a scintilla of sentimentality in this exquisite
novel. Instead, in its careful words and vibrating silences, My
Name Is Lucy Barton offers us a rare wealth of emotion, from
darkest suffering to—‘I was so happy. Oh, I was happy’—simple
joy.”—Claire Messud, The New York Times Book Review
“Deeply affecting.”—The Guardian
“Strout allies herself less with recent autobiographical fictions
than with Ernest Hemingway, whose style remains unmatched for its
capacity to convey the effects of trauma without sentimentality. .
. . Reading My Name Is Lucy Barton, I was frequently put in mind of
Hemingway’s famous injunction to write ‘the truest sentence that
you know.’”—The Wall Street Journal
“Impressionistic and haunting . . . With Lucy
Barton, [Strout] reminds us of the power of our stories—and
our ability to transcend our troubled narratives.”—Miami Herald
“Writing of this quality comes from a commitment to listening, from
a perfect attunement to the human condition, from an attention to
reality so exact that it goes beyond a skill and becomes a
virtue.”—Hilary Mantel
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