A review by nicoleaffleck
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

5.0

The fact that my thoughts on motherhood have never been so neatly reflected as through the point of view of a mountain lioness on the first pages of the masterpiece, the fact that I’ve never known a narrator as well as I know this one, the fact that what is her name after all, the fact that I’ll miss this book, its coziness, its expansiveness, tartes tartin, Jim, the fact that Lucy Ellman has accomplished the impossible in putting to words the harried, frenetic state of our inner and outer worlds with such grace, with such honesty, I just wish I could thank her.