Elizabeth strout amy e isabelle6/22/2023 She is slower to internalize the magnitude of the moment, yet she is able to capture her disorientation in words: “I did not know where to put my mind. He’s a strategic thinker who foresees potential problems and acts. William, who is focused on the science, is an early advocate for masks, social distancing, wiping down groceries and more. William is a parasitologist and Lucy is a writer, so they face the unfolding crisis in different ways. Lucy is still mourning the death of her second husband, David, while William is recovering from the end of his third marriage, to Estelle, and his separation from their young daughter, Bridget. Her ex-husband, William, father of her two grown daughters, bundles her off to a small town in Maine, where he has rented a home in which the two of them can ride out the pandemic in platonic companionship. Lucy Barton, the heroine of Strout’s “My Name Is Lucy Barton” (2016) and “Oh William!” (2021), chronicles her life from March 2020 to April 2021.
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