Reading Lucy: summary

In the reading Jennifer Egan story, she talks about a woman named Lucille Kolkin that works in the Brooklyn navy yard worker during World War II. Jennifer was  researching for a novel about the Brooklyn Navy Yard  and she talks about how met Lucille at the Brooklyn Historical Society. She met Lucille through her letters that Lucille wrote to her husband Alfred when her husband was at the navy in 1944. Jennifer talks about the relationship between Lucille and hers was strictly professional at first. But she went on reading Lucille’s letters  and she starts to compare it to her life. As she starts reading it she  enjoyed reading Lucille’s letters.She was so deep into her love story that one day she went to googled Lucille and found out that  she had died and she discovered a lot of things about Lucille. She also compare to her life and how she lived and Jennifer started asking herself questions about how her life. In the end she was surprised about the information that she found out about her and the letters that she read.