A review by alexkerner
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

5.0

Enough has been written about the form this novel takes (the single sentence, thousand page stream of consciousness) but aside from this (and technically this book is genius), what this book gives in its frenetic style is a a profound and deep look at the absurdities and tragedies of the current American experience, filled with political and cultural crises, poverty, inequality, health care that many cannot afford, gun violence that no one is keen on stopping, a world filled with absurdities that have become normalized. Through the voice of this Midwestern housewife we get the most intimate account of what this world is doing to our inner psyches. This book is clever, satirical and outrageously funny, but it is also maddening to see this world we live in and how helpless many feel trying to survive in it. Brilliant and very deserving of 5 stars.