A review by katieproctorbooks
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

3.0

I kind of? liked this book. It was fiction by read more like a memoir. But it left me wanting more, more story, more depth I guess. The main character and first-person narrator, Lucy, was a writer who grew up in extreme poverty in rural Illinois, but who had married into wealth. She tells the story across different time periods and the chapters are mostly just short scenes, mostly revolving around her complicated relationship with her mother.