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A review by akshay_bonala
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
3.0
This book is about 1050 pages long. Language is intriguing and easy to understand. You will need a lot of patience to complete this book.
This review is spoiler-free...
This book is Adult contemporary fiction and for sure has one of its kind writing style. In the book, our protagonist is an adult woman who is in her 40's. She stays with her husband and children and runs a small home-based baking business. And her family is as same as any other family in America.
Now the story's point of view is not from our Protagonist's/ any other person's perspective as many of the books. But, rather from the Protagonist's mind perspective. Yes, in this book you read what our protagonist is thinking in her mind.
So basically our Protagonist is living her normal life as every other person, so that's not the story. The story is about how her mind reacts/ deviate /simulate emotions based on her experience and the things happening around her.
Being a mother of 4 kids, losing her parents at a young age (considering the things happening around in America like rapes, shootings, environmental issues, and many more issues) how her mind reacts is very well written by Lucy Ellmann.
Now this book took me 20 days to complete. Even though I was very intrigued while picking up this book, in the end, I felt that I was not the correct audience to enjoy this book. Because along with the issues there are many other thing too discussed it in like regular things, politics, baking and many more and all of these are related to things happening in America. So me being from India, I felt disconnect at many places throughout the book. So I think for many Indians, this book will be boring at some places. But many things are highlighted in this book.
This review is spoiler-free...
This book is Adult contemporary fiction and for sure has one of its kind writing style. In the book, our protagonist is an adult woman who is in her 40's. She stays with her husband and children and runs a small home-based baking business. And her family is as same as any other family in America.
Now the story's point of view is not from our Protagonist's/ any other person's perspective as many of the books. But, rather from the Protagonist's mind perspective. Yes, in this book you read what our protagonist is thinking in her mind.
So basically our Protagonist is living her normal life as every other person, so that's not the story. The story is about how her mind reacts/ deviate /simulate emotions based on her experience and the things happening around her.
Being a mother of 4 kids, losing her parents at a young age (considering the things happening around in America like rapes, shootings, environmental issues, and many more issues) how her mind reacts is very well written by Lucy Ellmann.
Now this book took me 20 days to complete. Even though I was very intrigued while picking up this book, in the end, I felt that I was not the correct audience to enjoy this book. Because along with the issues there are many other thing too discussed it in like regular things, politics, baking and many more and all of these are related to things happening in America. So me being from India, I felt disconnect at many places throughout the book. So I think for many Indians, this book will be boring at some places. But many things are highlighted in this book.