this book didn’t do it for me. i feel like it went nowhere and nothing happened. i think i feel this way because of things that have happened in my own life and in my family. none of these things are novel if your family came from miserable circumstances. i am more like lucy’s daughters, in that i’m lucky enough to be two generations removed from the most traumatic family experiences, but my mom is sort of like lucy, in what she grew up with. i know lucy is human. we are supposed to understand that she has phrases she uses a lot, but i just didn’t love some of her dialogue. kind of boring and uninspired. i don’t know why it won a pulitzer prize.