Dear Lucy by Julie Sarkissian

Not sure what prompted me to pick up this book when I found it in the Library one day. I think I had read about it somewhere and the jacket enticed me with favorable reactions from some of my favorite authors: Ann Hood and Joyce Carol Oates. The novel did not disappoint! It is a very different style of writing, I will say.
The story is told from the different perspectives of the novel's characters. Lucy is the main character and she is developmentally disabled. She is living on a farm with Mister and Missus and another young girl (pregnant) named Samantha.  Mum mum, Lucy's mom, is always present, but not always physically.  Lucy is on the farm because her mom can't deal with her, and when she is agitated, it's apparent that life with Lucy is very challenging. Samantha has been sent away from her home, too, because of her "condition."
There are some interesting techniques that the author uses to have Lucy communicate, even with her limited capability.  Jennifer, her "pet" chick, speaks for her and through this character we learn what Lucy is thinking.  This is a story about motherhood and its natural pull on those who bear children.
There is a lot of  sorrow and heartbreak in this novel and it's a gripping story, but with a very strange ending. I am not sure that I liked the ending, but can't think how I would have ended it differently.