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Ducks, Newburyport
Lucy Ellmann · Literary Fiction
37 Pulse Score
Based on recommendations from independent creators
unreliable narratorpsychological thrillertrauma recovery
unreliable narratorpsychological thriller
#432 All Time
About this book
"Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what's happening at the factory farm down the interstate--not to mention what was done to the land's first inhabitants. A torrent of consciousness, narrated in a single sentence by a woman whose wandering thoughts are as comfortably familiar as they are heartrendingly honest, Ducks, Newburyport is a fearless indictment of our contemporary moment."--
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