![]() Lucy hasn't seen her for years, but the sight of her mother makes Lucy "feel warm and liquid-filled, as though all my tension had been a solid thing and now was not." That scene will perplex readers - that must be Strout's aim - because Lucy's mother still holds a place in her daughter's heart, despite striking and belittling her: When she was a young girl and her breasts were developing her mother told her she was beginning to look like the neighbor's cows. She's been in the hospital for three weeks when her mother travels from Amgash, Ill., for a visit. It's the 1970s and Lucy, a young mother, is in a New York City hospital recovering from a lingering illness. And as more of Lucy's recollections spill from the pages of "My Name Is Lucy Barton," it's a wonder she can abide the presence of her mother, who is sitting near her hospital bed in the opening scene. That's not Lucy's most frightening memory of the truck. ![]()
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