She mourns her apartment she mourns New York. Unhappiness stretches to every corner of Lucy's life as she realizes that she and William are not leaving Maine in a few weeks or, possibly, ever. "The sadness that rose and fell in me was like the tides," she says. She takes walks along the shore, swearing out loud in the dark. She is miserable she hates all of it - the cold, the house, the isolation. Maine is much colder than New York and she freezes in her light coat.
People are always looking out for one another in this novel, beginning with William's rescue of Lucy.Īnd so Lucy packs a small rolling suitcase, puts on her spring coat, and they head to Maine, where William has rented an isolated house by the edge of the ocean. This is a quietly profound book about grief and loss - oh, so much loss! - but also kindness, generosity and resilience.
Lucy had heard of the coronavirus, of course, but she thought it was an Italy thing - "I did not think about it ever coming to New York," she says in "Lucy by the Sea," the third Lucy Barton novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. "Let me get you out of this city," he says. 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.
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