Literary discussion on novel 'My Name is Lucy Barton'

MOULTONBOROUGH — The next literary conversation at Friends of the Moultonborough Library, will take place outside, in the back of the library on Wednesday, July 13 at 10:30 a.m. The selected novel is "My Name is Lucy Barton" by the Pulitzer Prize winning Elizabeth Strout. Copies of the book are available at the library on 4 Holland Street.

Lucy Barton, an affluent wife, mother and beginning writer, lives in New York City but her sense of self is a construct of the small Illinois town in which she was raised. Hospitalized for weeks while recovering from minor surgery, Lucy is visited by her estranged mother whom she has not seen for decades. Always distant and unaffectionate, Lucy’s mother now sits at her bedside for five days without sleeping. In this space out of time, mother and daughter share stories and gossip about ordinary events that occurred during Lucy’s difficult childhood.

This literary conversation will be led by Dr. Susan Merrifield, published author and Professor Emerita of English Education at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA.

Register for this event on the library website.