This book club meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 1pm at the Homewood Senior Center. Everyone is welcome.
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Stroud Lucy Barton is a thirty-something wife and mother who is in the hospital for longer than she expected, recovering from an operation. She’s not dying, but her situation is serious enough that her mother-- whom she has not seen in many years-- arrives at her bedside. The two begin to talk. Their style is undramatic, gentle-- just the simple unspooling of memories between women not generally given to sharing them; still, the accumulation of detail and the repetitive themes of longing and lifelong missed connections add up to revelations that are completely devastating.
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