A review by cmoo053
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

5.0

How do you write a review for such a spectacularly clever, original, magnificent novel? While accepting that nothing I can write here will do it justice, I will say, I came to Ducks, Newburyport with some trepidation. I am left at the end of this absorbing reading experience, convinced that this is a work of genius. Yes, this is a stylistically demanding read; part info-dump, part stream of consciousness narrative. This is overwhelming most of the time, but in my reading that really is the point. Ellmann’s novel asks big questions of its readers, most significantly how we go on in the face of personal traumas, and national and global crises. All I can really say, is wow.