My Name is Lucy Barton (Amgash, #1)

by Elizabeth Strout

He said, “What is your job as a writer of fiction?” And she said that her job as a writer of fiction was to report on the human condition, to tell us who we are and what we think and what we do.

so I took Vicky away in the fields until it was dark and we became more afraid of the dark than of our home.