Description
A middle-aged man, shattered by the death of his wife, finds himself caught between the life he once knew and the unbearable finality of what has happened. In Anne Tyler’s quietly observant style, grief becomes a daily landscape—one navigated through small routines, unexpected encounters, and the slow, uneven work of learning how to live again. As he tries to delay the “goodbye” that feels both necessary and impossible, the novel explores love’s afterlife, the ways people cope when words fail, and the surprising tenderness that can emerge from loss. With humane insight and a gentle, haunting realism, this is a story about restoration—less a sudden healing than a gradual return to the world.
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paperback
Penguin Random House
Published Jan 1, 2012
ISBN: 9780701187194
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First Published
2012
Language
eng
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