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A review by valtscn
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
4.0
It took me ages to finish this, I've interrupted the reading and came back to it, reading other books in the meantime, taking this back up after weeks at the time.
Coming back to it feels like coming back to an old friend, a shy old friend that is finally opening up for the first time. There's so much to learn as the narrator slowly opens up as a flower blossoming, letting the reader peak into the most untold weaknesses and fears that no one ever lets out. There are so many things to learn, time becomes vague, it's not clear when things happened or how slow time passes.
The lioness' bits at first left me a bit confused and I didn't find them to bring anything to the novel, but by the last one I finally got it.
I do feel that I missed out due to not ever have had too much exposure to what it means to live and grow up in the US - some of the references were very cultural and I feel I couldn't appreciate them completely.
Coming back to it feels like coming back to an old friend, a shy old friend that is finally opening up for the first time. There's so much to learn as the narrator slowly opens up as a flower blossoming, letting the reader peak into the most untold weaknesses and fears that no one ever lets out. There are so many things to learn, time becomes vague, it's not clear when things happened or how slow time passes.
The lioness' bits at first left me a bit confused and I didn't find them to bring anything to the novel, but by the last one I finally got it.
I do feel that I missed out due to not ever have had too much exposure to what it means to live and grow up in the US - some of the references were very cultural and I feel I couldn't appreciate them completely.