Resonates with both Caretakers and Seniors
After reading just the first twenty pages, I went back and read the thoughtful, beautiful words again. What a gentle and welcome lead-in to a unique tale of recreating a woman's memories through a well worn Red Address book given to her by her beloved father.
As the descriptions evolve of Doris shuffling, shaking, getting dizzy and eventually falling, readers are drawn in to her present personality as she transfers her Address Book memories into print for her distant niece. Doris' reactions to her own coming death and her unhappy stay in the hospital alternate with her joy and her regrets from her past in Paris and with her good friend, Gosta.
Unresolved are why she never sent money which she could well afford to spare to him when she knew he was trading paintings for milk and bread or to her sister and mother. Also, how could she just leave baby Elise with an aging woman as she went off to seek the inconstant man who claimed he loved her? Too many coincidences occur, making the story more magical than the reality it had been.
As the descriptions evolve of Doris shuffling, shaking, getting dizzy and eventually falling, readers are drawn in to her present personality as she transfers her Address Book memories into print for her distant niece. Doris' reactions to her own coming death and her unhappy stay in the hospital alternate with her joy and her regrets from her past in Paris and with her good friend, Gosta.
Unresolved are why she never sent money which she could well afford to spare to him when she knew he was trading paintings for milk and bread or to her sister and mother. Also, how could she just leave baby Elise with an aging woman as she went off to seek the inconstant man who claimed he loved her? Too many coincidences occur, making the story more magical than the reality it had been.