Elizabeth Stroud's latest 'Lucy By The Sea' 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 this 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.
The evolving dynamic between Lucy and William is wonderfully wrought, touching but never mawkish. Although she credits him with saving her from this life-threatening disease, William is not exactly a knight on a white horse. As Lucy remarks, he's still William: not a great listener, often remote, prone to secrets. When she brings up painful memories from her childhood, he sometimes cuts her off and says he doesn't want to hear them again.
Lucy, by her own account, is not a happy camper. She's emotionally fragile and sad. She comes to realize that her childhood was essentially one long lockdown:"I never saw anyone or went anywhere," she tells William. She reports his response:"William just looked at me and said, 'I know, Lucy.'"
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