This is an exquisite story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer prize-winn
ing author of Olive Kitteridge. Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what shoul
d have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many y
ears, comes to see her.
Her unexpected visit forces Lucy to confront the tens
ion and longing that have informed every aspect of her life: her impoverished ch
ildhood in Amgash, Illinois, her escape to New York and her desire to become a w
riter, her faltering marriage, her love for her two daughters.