Lucy by the Sea -- Elizabeth Strout

<b><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER - From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown--and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart.</b></b> <p/><b>"Strout's understanding of the human condition is capacious."--NPR</b><br><b><br>ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Entertainment Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, </i>NPR, <i> Time, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, PopSugar, She Reads</i></b> <p/>With her trademark spare, crystalline prose--a voice infused with "intimate, fragile, desperate humanness" (<i>The Washington Post</i>)--Elizabeth Strout turns her exquisitely tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, following the indomitable heroine of <i>My Name Is Lucy Barton</i> through the early days of the pandemic. <p/>As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the next several months, it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea. <p/>Rich with empathy and emotion, <i>Lucy by the Sea</i> vividly captures the fear and struggles that come with isolation, as well as the hope, peace, and possibilities that those long, quiet