My Name Is Lucy Barton (Amgash #1)

by Elizabeth Strout

She stopped reading, and many years went by before she went to a different library in a different town and brought home books again. I mention this because there is the question of how children become aware of what the world is, and how to act in it.

But the books brought me things. This is my point. They made me feel less alone. This is my point.

I think it’s the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down.