New York Times Bestseller
Oprah’s Book Club selection and New York Times Bestseller from Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. Lucy Barton retreats to the Maine coast during early pandemic days, where she and her ex-husband navigate isolation and rediscover connection. Spare, luminous prose that captures our shared uncertainty with profound empathy.
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes Lucy by the Sea, a New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Notable Book that earned a coveted spot in Oprah’s Book Club. This luminous novel follows Lucy Barton—the unforgettable heroine readers fell in love with—through the strange, suspended days of early pandemic lockdown.
When the world shuts down, Lucy finds herself whisked away from Manhattan to a weathered house on the Maine coast by her ex-husband, William. What unfolds is an intimate portrait of two people navigating isolation, grief, and the surprising grace that emerges when life slows to a standstill. Against the backdrop of the moody Atlantic, Lucy and William confront their tangled history while the world beyond their windows transforms in ways none of us could have imagined.
Strout’s spare, crystalline prose—praised by The Washington Post as possessing “intimate, fragile, desperate humanness”—captures both the fear of those uncertain months and the unexpected moments of connection that sustained us. Vogue called it “poised and moving,” while NPR noted that “Strout’s understanding of the human condition is capacious.”
This is a story about the bonds that hold us together even when we’re apart: the ache of watching a daughter struggle, the hollow silence after loss, the comfort of enduring love. Rich with empathy and achingly real, Lucy by the Sea reminds us why Elizabeth Strout remains one of our most essential storytellers.
Strout's understanding of the human condition is capacious.
Poised and moving.
Intimate, fragile, desperate humanness.
A supple, subtle book about the most obvious subject in the world.
A novel of remarkable power and grace.
Strout's gift for capturing the texture of ordinary life has never been more evident.
A master class in the art of storytelling.
Deeply moving and profoundly human.
| Weight | 0.52 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 5.18 × 0.65 × 7.98 in |
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| Accolade | New York Times Bestseller, New York Times Notable Book, Oprah's Book Club, Pulitzer Prize |
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