![]() ![]() However, Frank has recently resurfaced and is trying to rekindle romance in their twilight years. A retired schoolteacher, Lucille, also in her 80s, never married because Frank, her high school true love, wed someone else. Her problems stem in part from the fact that her father, who raised her alone, irrationally blames her for her mother’s death in a car crash soon after her birth. As the point of view shifts among these three characters, we learn that Maddy, now a senior in high school, has been ostracized by her classmates. They strike up a friendship born of mutual isolation, and she dubs him “Truluv” for his enduring devotion to Nola. (This book depicts so many luscious-sounding confections it should come with its own FDA label.) One day at the cemetery, Arthur meets Maddy, a teenager with a nose ring, who hangs out there. At night, he dines on whatever canned goods he can cobble together, tries to prevent his cat, Gordon, from running away, and dodges the busybody next door, Lucille, who keeps trying to entice him onto her front porch with her delicious baked goods. In a small Missouri town, a widower finds solace by reaching out to other troubled souls.Īrthur Moses, 85, goes every day to the cemetery to eat his lunch at his late wife Nola’s grave. ![]()
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