A review by diesmali
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

5.0

The fact that this was a reading experience unlike any other, the fact that I've never felt like I've stayed inside someone else's head as much as this before, the fact that the story, if there can be said to be a story, is about a work at home mother who thinks about the latticing of her pies, whatever is on the news, and all the things that crop into her head, the fact that it is a convincing portrait of America, the fact that it is both funny and scary, the fact that this is actually how the entire novel is written, the fact that the author manages to keep this going for a thousand pages, the fact that it doesn't get boring, the fact that it works, the fact that there is a story about a lioness that is briefly and occasionally interwoven with the rest of the novel, the fact that it blew my mind.