MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON

A powerful and poignant new short novel by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of OLIVE KITTERIDGE.

A mother comes to visit her daughter in hospital after having not seen her in many years. They sit and talk, connecting again mostly by talking about various people who Lucy knew in her childhood. But the power and the love in this brilliant new novel comes from what remains unsaid. In the spaces between the sometimes gentle sometimes charged conversation, Lucy Barton fills in her own childhood memories about growing up in Amgash, Illinois, in a deeply troubled family filled with secrets; the pain about her faltering marriage; and her journey toward becoming a writer.

Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of OLIVE KITTERIDGE, as well as THE BURGESS BOYS, a New York Times Bestseller, ABIDE WITH ME, a national bestseller and Book Sense pick, and AMY AND ISABELLE, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner 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. She lives in New York City and Portland, Maine.