Ah, William. Starout E.

Writer Lucy Barton for a long time in divorce from her first husband William, with whom she had lived in marriage for many years and raised two daughters. But when Lucy’s his second husband dies, and his wife throws William, they are looking for support from each other and together go to Maine in search of the sister of William, which he until recently did not suspect. The events of the present are intertwined in Lucy’s story with memories of the past: about childhood in a poor provincial town, about life with William in New York, about traveling to rest with his mother. William has always been a mystery to Lucy, and, thinking about who he is, she also reflects on sorrow, loneliness, family ties and love.

, a quiet, laconic prose of Starut fraught with amazing charm. Irony, light humor, warmth, compassion, psychologism - all this makes the new book Elizabeth Straut by a real literary phenomenon.