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No cover — Elizabeth Berg: The story of Arthur Truluv (2017)

222 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2017

ISBN:: 978-1-4000-6990-3
OCLC Number:: 966632666

(1 review)

"Truluv is a moving novel about three people who have lost the person they love most, and must find their way back to happiness. Arthur, a widower, meets Maddy, an angry and friendless teenage girl, while visiting his late wife at the cemetery, where he goes every day for lunch. Against all odds, the two strike up a friendship that pulls them out of a serious rut. They band together with Arthur's nosy neighbor Lucille, to create lives that are truly worth living. Proving that life's most precious moments are sweeter when shared, they go from strangers, to friends, to an untraditional but loving family. Betrayal, loneliness, romance and family are at the heart of this honey of a book, a must-read for fans of Elizabeth Berg's early work. This is a story about life being affirmed at all ages, old and young, and about finding happiness when hope seems …

"Truluv is a moving novel about three people who have lost the person they love most, and must find their way back to happiness. Arthur, a widower, meets Maddy, an angry and friendless teenage girl, while visiting his late wife at the cemetery, where he goes every day for lunch. Against all odds, the two strike up a friendship that pulls them out of a serious rut. They band together with Arthur's nosy neighbor Lucille, to create lives that are truly worth living. Proving that life's most precious moments are sweeter when shared, they go from strangers, to friends, to an untraditional but loving family. Betrayal, loneliness, romance and family are at the heart of this honey of a book, a must-read for fans of Elizabeth Berg's early work. This is a story about life being affirmed at all ages, old and young, and about finding happiness when hope seems lost. Readers will laugh, cry, and love Truluv"--

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1 star

I really enjoyed berg's the day I ate everything and so I expected something more than a warmed-over 100 year man who went out the window.

the character are a widower who pines for his wife by visiting her grave daily, his next door neighbor who bakes entirely too many cookies and cakes for anyone to eat, and a rebellious (not really) pregnant teenage girl who has a not-properly-explained poor relationship with her single parent father. the baker next door had all the hallmarks of the day I ate whatever I wanted, so maybe I've vaulted berg into a better writer than she is. as for the cute, toothless old men routine - i'm sick of it.

Subjects

Widowers
Fiction
Interpersonal relations
Teenage girls