Elizabeth Strout

New Yorkban járunk, a nyolcvanas években. Lucy Barton, a fiatal anya és feleség több hónapra kórházba kerül. Váratlanul meglátogatja rég látott édesanyja, és öt napot tölt a betegágya mellett. Anya és lánya azt teszi, amit talán még soha: beszélgetni kezdenek egymással....

would like to say a few things about my first husband, Wilham. William has lately been through some very sad events- many of us have—but I would like to mention them, it feels almost a compulsion; he is seventy-one years old now. My second husband, David, died last year, and in my grief for...

The profound mother-daughter bond is explored through a mother's hospital visit to her estranged daughter by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys. Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't...