William, Becka, and Chrissy, too, undergo moral and personal accountings. Startling revelations - her “whole childhood was a lockdown” - give her perspective both clarifying and terrifying. The pandemic prompts Lucy’s reckoning with the worth of her life, her career, her performance as a mother. Competent, take-charge William eventually arranges for them to leave the city, too, as determined to save their lives as he was Lucy’s. She can’t read or write, and finds herself exhausted yet unable to rest, irritated by William, and distraught with worry about their daughters, Becka and Chrissy, who both live in Brooklyn. She still grieves the loss of her second husband, David, a year earlier. She announces on that her “relationship with daughters will change in ways could never have anticipated,” that a close friend and a family member “will die of the virus,” that she will “never see apartment again,” that her “entire life … become something new.” The novel that follows is the story of how and why these events and losses and metamorphoses occur. Very early on, Lucy makes it clear that we will be reading about a radically transformative epoch in her life. In its emotional heft and honesty, its ability to go fearlessly to the darkest places, its pellucid empathy and its spot-on rendering of the pandemic experience for both individuals and the country, it is perhaps the best of the four marvelous novels Strout has written featuring Lucy Barton. If you’re more curious about the Pellucid Corp Perspective and want to dive deeper into the data, you can sign up for their free digital magazine here.Less than a year after the third book in what has come to be known as the Amgash series, “ Oh William!,” was published to great acclaim, Elizabeth Strout is back with a new installment, “ Lucy by the Sea.” The title’s buoyant coziness is belied by the book’s unflinching account of 60-something writer Lucy Barton’s life during the COVID-19 pandemic. I played pretty horrible.) That said, the 70º weather we had for a few days makes me hopeful that we’re finally heading in the right direction and golf season can officially start now. Of course, I still had to wait until April to get a “normal-feeling” round in – aka real golf. I can’t speak for the rest of the country, but in Chicago, March started to hint at some REAL golf weather for us. That said, we can also look at the ’19 March results against the 10-yr average and know that beating ’18’s March is nothing to write home about as it significantly lags “normal.” “Fortunately I only had to eat crow for a month on my January prediction of many months of “up” weather this year (as February came crashing in) and March gets us back on the pattern I had expected. That result put us back in positive territory for the Year-to-Date (YtD) period which is now +2% (in our neutral zone). March’s results offer redemption for my prognosis that we’d see many months in ’19 with favorable “comps” as Golf Playable Hours (GPH) improved 9% compared to the same month last year. Then February happened and the data wasn’t good… Thankfully, March rebounded and the data looked much better. In January, Jim Koppenhaver predicted we would see many “up months” in 2019 after a dismal 2018. It’s an neat perspective in terms of Mother Nature being unpredictable and golf relying on her cooperation to succeed. Pellucid Corp’s March Weather report is finally in and I found it as interesting as always.
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