Oh Lucy! What were you thinking, fleeing the comfortable Manhattan apartment you shared with your late, doting second husband to ride out the pandemic with your philandering ex in a remote seaside ...

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 ...

In her latest novel, Lucy by the Sea, Elizabeth Strout captures the bewilderment of us all at the onset of the pandemic. Her character Lucy Barton admits not only did she not see it coming, but even ...

Harpswell, Maine — Here, in the Mid-Coast Maine village of her childhood, in a home overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, is where Elizabeth Strout has chosen to install the characters in her new novel, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...