My name is Lucy Barton

Description:

"Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her and a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all--the one between mother and daughter"--

subjects: Mothers and daughters,  Fiction,  Amerikanisches Englisch,  Estrangement,  Family Life,  nyt:hardcover-fiction=2016-01-31,  New York Times bestseller,  New York Times reviewed,  Dysfunctional families,  FICTION / Literary,  FICTION / Family Life / General,  FICTION / Women,  Convalescence,  Large type books,  Fiction, family life,  Mothers and daughters, fiction,  Fiction, family life, general