Lucy Ellmann interview: ‘A woman writing a long book is considered audacious, if not outrageous’

Lucy Ellmann has a lot to say. In Ducks, Newburyport, her 1,034-page novel, Ellmann’s narrator, an Ohio housewife, lets loose an encyclopedic monologue that encompasses modern motherhood; the American health care system; Trump; the tainted water in Flint, Michigan; “the fact that the average teen checks their phone two thousand times a day”; Marie Kondo; the plot of Little House on the Prairie; and other subjects.The book consists mostly of a single, breathless – and utterly compelling – sentence.

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