The Last Odd Day by Lynne Hinton is a story of loss and love. Jean Witherspoon’s life is full of death and disappointments until she is left all alone. Like the others in her life, she perseveres, mourning and grieving, but never quitting. Acceptance.
Jean introduces her parents as an example of love.
“If you’d seen my parents…they appeared…all wrong for each other. You likely have dismissed their marriage. …However, what I learned of love and marriage came swiftly and gently from the relationship I witnessed between them. Though our time together as family was brief and even laden with sorrow, here is the place where I learned how good it can really be.”
This sets the tone for the book…sorrow, persistence, acceptance.
Another example is a folktale where the village has an isolated cabin for when a mother loses her child. The mother spends six weeks in the cabin. Afterward, the village ladies burn the cabin giving to mother a choice to stay in the cabin or escape to rebuild the cabin for the next grief-stricken mother.
The lesson here is clear. Get over, get on, and get to work.
If you are in the mood for a quiet love story without passion or joy, but with care and tolerance, this is your book.
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