Lucy recalls her third grade teacher, Mr. When she thought to come back to her husband, he wouldn't have her, and both of them remained alone and sad the rest of their lives. Kathie, though she was very well off, had left her husband for another man, only to find out that the other man was gay. They discussed one of the women that Lucy's mother did alterations for, a Ms. Her mother, at first, just made small talk. Her mother hated hospitals, but had come nonetheless, which spoke volumes to Lucy. While in the hospital, many years later, when she, herself, was a wife and a mother, her own mother visited her, which was monumental, because her mother and father lived in impoverished conditions in a rural part of Illinois. She says that those times alone devastated her, and instilled in her the idea that she was a burden. She remembers that when her parents would go to work, and she was still too young to go to school, they would take her with them, and lock her in the cab of the truck until they were done for the day. Lucy recalls that her earliest memories of her parents are accompanied by a feeling of loneliness. The story is told in a series of flashbacks, beginning with Lucy's time in the hospital when she was younger. My Name Is Lucy Barton, by Elizabeth Strout, is written as a fictional memoir of a famous author.
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