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In 2022, Anne Tyler and Elizabeth Strout, known for their perceptive studies of mundane, everyday lives in America, published works set in the pandemic year 2020. Both works are about families, but Strout extended her insights into the social, economic, and geographical divide hurting contemporary America. In the chronicle of life in evacuation told by a writer, Lucy Barton, Strout tangles Lucy’s wounds with those of her partner, daughters, and siblings. Lucy lives in evacuation with issues such as her partner’s self-remorse for inheriting assets made from the World War, her daughter’s marriage in crisis, and her sister’s accusation of being selfish to leave her impoverished family. When the second spring after the pandemic onset comes around, she is ready to accept a new beginning in the house by the coast in Maine. Tyler’s vignette in her latest novel limits her scope to the personal experience of David Garrett and focuses on family life's resilient and unchanging facets. Despite the seriousness of the unprecedented crisis their works deal with, both writers show how life goes on and close their works with a sense of hope.
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