A review by joshniesse
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

4.0

Ducks, Newburyport is a stunning & brutal portrait of American social dysfunction as told through an exhaustive catalogue of an Ohio mother‘s endless anxieties alternating with the story of a mountain lioness caring for her new pups in an America hostile to wilderness. At times challenging, & alternately profound & mundane, I‘ve never read anything quite like it. Ellman‘s ambitious new book is either insane or brilliant or maybe both.