A review by saraklem
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

4.0

Whew! This book is to literary fiction what runway looks are to fashion: creative, potentially iconic, and unapologetically not for everyone. I think Lucy Ellmann nailed it, for the most part. There's a part of me that says it could have gotten its point across with a few hundred pages shaved off, and a part of me that thinks its length and density is a standalone character - especially because it wasn't until the last hundred pages that I started to feel it really rewarded the perseverence. It made me feel so much empathy for the narrator, for her kids, for my mom, for myself, for all of us.