Lucy : A Novel (Paperback)

from ahef1963

Lucy is a young woman from Antigua who has made her way to New York City, where she is an au pair, caring for four young girls, the daughters of a wealthy couple. Lucy is studying nursing in the evenings, making friends, taking lovers. She is miserable in New York. It is cold; she is homesick; sh...

from kishields

Lucy is an insightful novel of a young au pair's first year away from her Caribbean home. As an au pair to a wealthy family she learns of first-world problems and gradually begins to resolve her own feelings about her past and her family, particularly her mother--and begins to break away to creat...

from Elizabeth.Michele

This was an assignment for my contemporary lit class in college. Although I didn't enjoy it, I did find the character of Lucy to be a woman of strong if not unusual ideas and beliefs.