{"product_id":"lucy-by-the-sea-a-novel","title":"Lucy by the Sea A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eMy Name is Lucy Barton \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOlive Kitteridge\u003c\/i\u003e comes a “poised and moving” (\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003enovel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown—and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Strout’s understanding of the human condition is capacious.”—NPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Entertainment Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, \u003c\/i\u003eNPR,\u003ci\u003e Time, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, PopSugar, She Reads\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith her trademark spare, crystalline prose—a voice infused with “intimate, fragile, desperate humanness” (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e)—Elizabeth Strout turns her exquisitely tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, following the indomitable heroine of \u003ci\u003eMy Name Is Lucy Barton\u003c\/i\u003e through the early days of the pandemic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the next several months, it’s just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRich with empathy and emotion, \u003ci\u003eLucy by the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e vividly captures the fear and struggles that come with isolation, as well as the hope, peace, and possibilities that those long, quiet days can inspire. At the heart of this story are the deep human connections that unite us even when we’re apart—the pain of a beloved daughter’s suffering, the emptiness that comes from the death of a loved one, the promise of a new friendship, and the comfort of an old, enduring love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"OUATB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47628010553599,"sku":"*R0017980*","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/5550\/7364\/files\/7450443482399.jpg?v=1764956513","url":"https:\/\/shop.onceuponatimebooks.com\/products\/lucy-by-the-sea-a-novel","provider":"Once Upon a Time Books AR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}