A review by ichirofakename
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

5.0

This is it: the best book. Don't be put off by scary references to Joyce and/or stream-of-consciousness, this is much better than Ulysses and perfectly readable. Only be put off by its length and repetitive interminability. We hear the inner thoughts of a housewife baking pies for sale to restaurants, in the exact idiom you try to turn off via meditation. Besides the interminable blathering, there are three events in a thousand pages: a parking lot gets cut off by flood waters, someone tries to run away, and a shooting. But that's just the exciting stuff, the important stuff is the blathering, about modern society, politics, life, with lots of funny cracks. In a separate interwoven story, a lion makes friends with a dog. Don't read it, it's way too long. Hint: not every single word is true.