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A review by thelittlefriend
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
5.0
Even if this took me over two years to read (I both read the physical version and listened to the brilliant audiobook narrated by Stephanie Ellyne) I loved every time I picked it up. I loved staying in the narrator’s head, following her train of thought and daily musings, contemplating on gun laws and chickens and baking and Trump and old movies and her husband and her mother and death and cancer and her children and the neighbors and the lion and the dog and food and everything in between.
She is funny, reflective, worried and exhausted. She goes through her daily tasks while the anguish of the rest of the world keeps reminding her - and us - that nothing really is certain.
It was lovely to follow the other main character, the animal, as well. One of the ways in which this book was marketed was by stating that this is, supposedly, a 1000 page sentence. And yes, the main character’s chapters have only commas, no full stops. But the chapters about the female mountain lion are written like in a normal book. It gives a great contrast to the “main” chapters, and the way the stories intertwined was exhilarating.
The book that has taken me the longest to get through, but also one of my favorites of all time.
She is funny, reflective, worried and exhausted. She goes through her daily tasks while the anguish of the rest of the world keeps reminding her - and us - that nothing really is certain.
It was lovely to follow the other main character, the animal, as well. One of the ways in which this book was marketed was by stating that this is, supposedly, a 1000 page sentence. And yes, the main character’s chapters have only commas, no full stops. But the chapters about the female mountain lion are written like in a normal book. It gives a great contrast to the “main” chapters, and the way the stories intertwined was exhilarating.
The book that has taken me the longest to get through, but also one of my favorites of all time.