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And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
Novella
4.5 Stars
From The Book:
It's an exquisitely moving portrait of an elderly man’s struggle to hold on to his most precious memories, and his family’s efforts to care for him even as they must find a way to let go.
With all the same charm of his bestselling full-length novels, here Fredrik Backman once again reveals his unrivaled understanding of human nature and deep compassion for people in difficult circumstances. This is a tiny gem with a message you’ll treasure for a lifetime.
My Thoughts:
It is amazing how Backman managed to capture so much emotion so perfectly. It's a story about love and tenderness and letting go and remembering and legacies and family. I believe that Frederick Backman said everything that needs to be or can be said about this little gem. So with a heartfelt gratitude to Mr. Bckman for sharing his story...here is his quote.
"This is a story about memories and about letting go. It's a love letter and a slow farewell between a man and his grandson, and between a dad and his boy. I never meant for you to read it, to be quite honest. I wrote it just because I was trying to sort out my own thoughts, and I'm the kind of person who needs to see what I'm thinking on paper to make sense of it. But it turned into a small tale of how I'm dealing slowly with losing the greatest minds I know, about missing someone who is still here, and how I wanted to explain it to my children. I'm letting it go for now, for what it's worth. It's about fear and love, and how they seem to go hand in hand most of the time. Most of all, it's about time. While we still have it." ... Frederick Backman
