☮Karen's Reviews > The One-in-a-Million Boy

Book club read #6, May 2017.

Outstanding characterizations sparkle and shine in this heartwarming book about second chances. An eleven year old Boy Scout has met a sudden end, but lives on through his journals and tape recordings of 104 year old Ona Vitkus. His duty to help her around the house and to try to get Ona into the Guinness book of records was to end soon too, but is taken up by his guilt - laden father Quinn. Quinn and Ona end up helping each other more than anyone could have predicted. This touches on themes of grief, friendship, family, music, aging (of course), and our obligations to and acceptance of our fellow human beings. I listened to the audio and had the book close by for clarification of some things, since this will be discussed later in book club.