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The Book Show #1479 - Elizabeth Strout

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published November 22, 2016 at 3:00 PM EST
Book Cover - My Name is Lucy Barton

  Pulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth Strout’s bestselling novels Olive Kitteridge  and The Burgess Boys  have illuminated our most tender relationships.

Now, in My Name Is Lucy Barton, she shows how a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all—the one between mother and daughter.

Originally aired as The Book Show #1440. 
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