![]() Not long after the two meet, Maddy finds herself in need of a place to stay, and Arthur takes her in. Maddy loves Arthur’s devotion to his wife, the way he listens during conversations, the way he seems to weigh what Maddy says as evenly as if she were an adult.Īrthur thinks Maddy could use a true friend, that she’s due a break in life, that she hides her broken heart inside her tough exterior. She is wildly unpopular with her classmates, a condition she attributes to losing her mother when she was only a few weeks old.Īrthur and Maddy become friends. One day, he notices a teen girl named Maddy who comes to the cemetery on her lunch break from school. The cemetery, Arthur thinks, is a palace of stories. ![]() As he passes the other graves, he often stops, and when he does, he can hear the stories of those buried there: who they were, what they loved, what did them in. How their cat, Gordon, is doing, for instance. ![]() Rather, he tells Nola what’s going on at home. ![]() ![]() Each day at lunchtime, he takes the bus to the cemetery, walks to her plot, and talks to her while he eats his midday meal.Īrthur is not morose. Elizabeth Berg | Random House | 218 pages | $26Īs the novel opens, Arthur Truluv, eighty-five years old, is grieving the loss of his wife, Nola, who died six months before. ![]()
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