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Kimberly Farr, who gracefully, achingly gave voice to the eponymous protagonist in Strout's My Name Is Lucy Barton, returns here as Lucy but adds to her repertoire Lucy's family, neighbors, and long-ago acquaintances who call Amgash, IL, home. When Lucy's mother unexpectedly arrived in Lucy's Manhattan hospital room in Strout's earlier book, the small-town stories she brought distracted mother and daughter from sharing more intimate moments neither could face. Here, Strout's n...Log In or Sign Up to Read More