Reading Lucy is a story told by the author Jennifer Egan, the story begins when Jennifer Egan who lives in Brooklyn meets Lucille Kolkin at the Brooklyn Historical Society it is then revealed that the reason for their meeting is due to fact that Jennifer Egan is trying to write a novel about “a woman who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II”. Jennifer Egan tells the reader that Lucille is a woman who had worked with the Navy Yard as a mechanic for almost two years and that one of the main reasons Egan loved Lucille was because she was passionate, Jennifer Egan then proceeded to show the reader how their friendship began and according to Egan it was because of the letters that Lucille shared with her, later in the reading Egan offers a description of Lucille and she is described has a shipfitter from the third class that fabricates and lays out the metal structural parts of a ship. The author Jennifer Egans also included the husband of Lucille Alfred, Alfred is described has having different things than Lucille such has not having been to college and having pep talks on how little college really mattered, but one thing that they shared in common was having the same religious beliefs. Has the story progresses Jennifer Egans begins to call Lucille “Lucy” showing that she has bonded with Lucille and that the author really cares about her story and her life, the longer the reader keeps reading the clearer it becomes that Jennifer Egan does not actually meet Lucille Kolkin in person but, she does through actual documents that she reads about her while in the Brooklyn Historical Society which in her opinion were enough to connect her to both Lucy and Alfred.