My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

Available at West Vancouver Memorial Library in Book, Large Print Book, eBook, Kindle, Audiobook CD, and eAudiobook formats.

Ten discussion questions.

Author's Website. "Elizabeth Strout was born in Portland, Maine, and grew up in small towns in Maine and New Hampshire."

"consider these LitLovers talking points to help start a discussion for My Name Is Lucy Barton"

"MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON, the title proclaims: — a substantive declaration, factual, objective, and yet the narrator herself is tentative, retiring, self-effacing."

"Elizabeth Strout’s My Name Is Lucy Barton is an exploration of memory"

"An exploration of the love between mother and daughter is both affecting and wise"

"One of this nation's most abiding myths is that social origins don't matter."

"'Lonely was the first flavor I had tasted in my life and it was always there, hidden inside the crevices of my mouth, reminding me.'"

"'There was a time, and it was many years ago now,' Elizabeth Strout's slim and spectacular new novel begins, 'when I had to stay in a hospital for almost nine weeks.'"

Palo Alto Online. "Pulitzer Prize winner to discuss her new book, 'My Name is Lucy Barton' at Kepler's on Jan. 19"