Special thank you to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for gifting me with this ARC in exchange for my honest review.
"I wish you enough. Enough sun to light up your days, enough rain that you appreciate the sun. Enough joy to strengthen your soul, enough pain that you can appreciate life's small moments of happiness. And enough friends that you can manage a farewell now and then."
Doris, 96 years young, has come to grips with the fact that she is finally at the end of her years. While she has lived a life filled-to-the-brim with experience and excitement, there are so many details of her life that she has yet to share with those closest to her, namely her great-niece Jenny.
Through a series of entries in her decades-old red address book, a gift from her father, Doris relives the past of those who have come and gone in her long life -- both those whose memories cause her great sadness, and those who cause her immense joy. Doris decides to put pen to paper, and preserves her past in a series of stories that she leaves behind for Jenny to read.
From her Stockholm apartment where Doris now lives, to glimpses of her past in both Paris and America, this novel paints the portrait of a life lived to the fullest -- through both good times and bad.
While this book has been published in 28 countries around the world, it will be making its American debut this week. I can't recommend this book enough, and it is the perfect one to curl up with this winter. Readers will not be able to put it down until the last page is turned. It's THAT enchanting!
"I wish you enough. Enough sun to light up your days, enough rain that you appreciate the sun. Enough joy to strengthen your soul, enough pain that you can appreciate life's small moments of happiness. And enough friends that you can manage a farewell now and then."
Doris, 96 years young, has come to grips with the fact that she is finally at the end of her years. While she has lived a life filled-to-the-brim with experience and excitement, there are so many details of her life that she has yet to share with those closest to her, namely her great-niece Jenny.
Through a series of entries in her decades-old red address book, a gift from her father, Doris relives the past of those who have come and gone in her long life -- both those whose memories cause her great sadness, and those who cause her immense joy. Doris decides to put pen to paper, and preserves her past in a series of stories that she leaves behind for Jenny to read.
From her Stockholm apartment where Doris now lives, to glimpses of her past in both Paris and America, this novel paints the portrait of a life lived to the fullest -- through both good times and bad.
While this book has been published in 28 countries around the world, it will be making its American debut this week. I can't recommend this book enough, and it is the perfect one to curl up with this winter. Readers will not be able to put it down until the last page is turned. It's THAT enchanting!