And every morning the way home gets longer and longer
Subtitle: a novella
By: Fredrik Backman ; translated by Alice Menzies
Contributors: Menzies, Alice, translator
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print core; Thorndike Press large print core series
Publisher: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9781410496836
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Large type books; Fiction; Fathers and sons; Grandparent and child; Reminiscing
Work titles: Och varje morgon blir vägen hem längre och längre
Description: Grandpa and Noah are sitting on a bench in a square that keeps getting smaller every day. The square is strange but also familiar, full of the odds and ends that have made up their lives: Grandpa's work desk, the stuffed dragon that Grandpa once gave to Noah, the sweet-smelling hyacinths that Grandma loved to grow in her garden. As they wait together on the bench, they tell jokes and discuss their shared love of mathematics. Grandpa recalls what it was like to fall in love with his wife, what it was like to lose her. She's as real to him now as the first day he met her, but he dreads the day when he won't remember her. Sometimes Grandpa sits on the bench next to Ted, Noah's father -- Ted who never liked math, prefers writing and playing guitar, and has waited his entire life for his father to have time for him, to accept him. But in their love of Noah, they have found a common bond. Grandpa, Grandma, Ted, and Noah all meet here, in this peculiar space that is growing dimmer and more confusing all the time. And here is where they will learn to say goodbye, the scent of hyacinths in the air, nothing to fear.
Notes: Place of publication given as Farmington Hills, Michigan on t.p.

Translation from the Swedish of: Och varje morgon blir vägen hem längre och längre.