LUCY BY THE SEA. By Elizabeth Strout. Random House. 288 pages. $28. When Elizabeth Strout’s Lucy Barton got married for the first time, she changed her name. “I did not want to be me anymore. I was ...

Elizabeth Strout's latest is a chronicle of a plague year — and also of the main character's growing insights into herself, her family, and... Oh Lucy! What were you thinking, fleeing the comfortable ...

Lucy Barton doesn't quite grasp what is going on when her ex-husband, William, calls her early in 2020 and tells her to pack a bag, they are fleeing New York. "Let me get you out of this city," he ...

Strout follows up Oh William! with a captivating entry in the Lucy Barton series. This time, Lucy decamps to rural Maine during the first year of the Covid lockdown. At the pandemic’s onset in 2020, ...

In Elizabeth Strout’s “Lucy by the Sea” (Random House), the fourth of her novels concerning a writer named Lucy Barton, the title character meets a man who tells her that he loved her memoir. His wife ...

During the spring of 2020, I found myself thinking a lot about the fact that I was living through a historic disaster. I read about past wars and crises, trying to calm myself with the knowledge that ...

Readers first met Lucy Barton, the febrile, warm-hearted writer, in 2016’s My Name Is Lucy Barton. Back then, author Elizabeth Strout introduced us to a woman reflecting on her physically and ...