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A review by 8little_paws
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
5.0
This book has been so buzzed that I had to check it out when I found out my library had it on Hoopla. For me, it lived up to my expectations and then some. Yes, it's over 1k pages and a very large chunk of it is a long stream of the main character's thoughts (I would argue that it's not one single sentence--rather than use punctuation each sentence is broken up by the phrase "the fact that". Once you get in the groove of reading your eyes learn to stop reading "the fact that").
Throughout the book you learn all about the main character's life and her past. There are a lot of themes here--motherhood, fear of violence, how man interacts with nature seem to be the main ones for me. There were a few sections in particular about the main character's relationship with her mother that I found incredible, in particular a longer passage about how as a child she went to tell her mother about the enthusiasm she had for the day, and how her mother snapped at her, and how that broke her heart to have her mother not share in her joy. At first it seems like there is no plot here, but there absolutely is as you continue reading.
I've never read anything like this book before and I suspect it will stay with me a long time.
Throughout the book you learn all about the main character's life and her past. There are a lot of themes here--motherhood, fear of violence, how man interacts with nature seem to be the main ones for me. There were a few sections in particular about the main character's relationship with her mother that I found incredible, in particular a longer passage about how as a child she went to tell her mother about the enthusiasm she had for the day, and how her mother snapped at her, and how that broke her heart to have her mother not share in her joy. At first it seems like there is no plot here, but there absolutely is as you continue reading.
I've never read anything like this book before and I suspect it will stay with me a long time.