A review by ahar7911
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

5.0

this book is about: zoo animals, p. chops, Indian mounds, SpaghettiOs, the word hydrangea, the numbness of muted beings, 2A, motherhood, nuclear family and nuclear war, the meaning of enormity, school shooters, the apocalypse, Alec Baldwin and Meryl Streep, cancer and sickness and death and loss, bridges, the solar eclipse, Persuasion, chicken (feed), pollution, marriage, deadbeat dads, the Gnadenhutten Massacre, the Ohio river, Bathesheba, Pepito, Zadok Cramer, Laura Ingalls Wilder, the Ivy League, Rachel Carson, David Attenborough, Tangier Island, iguana eggs, porn, dental hygienists, the Abominable Snowman, lady slipper orchids, the Silent Treatment, shyness, guns guns guns, the Amish, ducks, Newburyport