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My Name Is Lucy Barton (Amgash, #1)

Elizabeth Strout

Start date: July 15, 2016

Finish date: August 1, 2016

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Jan 15, 2017 Laura rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: viciados-em-livros, kindle, man-booker-prize-nominee, e-books, read-2017, novellas, contemporary-fiction, american-fiction

This is a book about the story of a daughter and her mother. It seems to be a dejà vu book or I may be wrong about it.

3* Olive Kitteridge
3* My Name is Lucy Barton
TR The Burgess Boys

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Jul 01, 2016 Dree rated it liked it

Shelves: the-northeast, the-midwest, 2016-reads

In this quick read, Lucy Barton tells the story of her life. Kind of. She hints at the depth of abuse and poverty she experienced as a child--hunger, cold, neglect, and perhaps more. Bullying at school--and she strongly remembers the one teacher who would not tolerate it.

And she got away. And had a rather normal life, with kids, marriage, divorce, plenty of money, a successful career.

And then the book ends. It was all just a little too vague for me--I was expecting some kind of big reveal or sh ...more

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