A review by gilljames
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

4.0

You have to work at this one and it's perhaps not for everybody. Stick with it and you are rewarded. You almost become the narrator as you follow her stream of consciousness. "A scorching indictment of America's barbarity" says the inside book cover blurb. Maybe and perhaps also other more universal barbarities emerge as well as some of the joys of life. Shadows of stories appear and melt away. Only at the very end do you understand the whole story. It's worth waiting for. My main irritation, and the reason the book lost a star, was that almost everything was related as "the fact that".