A review by calla351
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

4.0

It’s hard to know how I feel about this one. It’s ballsy, and it’s occasionally wonderful, and I think it captures a mood and a person better than maybe anything I’ve read. It might be as far as you can possibly go in a stream-of-consciousness style. But I’d be lying if I didn’t also find it frustrating, and maybe far too long, and sometimes meandering to the point of meaninglessness. I really wanted to like this book, and by the end I think I did, even if the ending felt a bit out of nowhere, but I can’t imagine I’ll read it again. It’s a real portrait of a mind, aa very open and empathetic read, but it was a hard one.