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Laddar... The Big Finishav Brooke Fossey
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GÃ¥ med i LibraryThing för att fÃ¥ reda pÃ¥ om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner pÃ¥ LibraryThing om den här boken. It was a kindle library loan Much better than I was expecting. Sweet, sad, hopeful. Kirkus: In Fossey's debut, a grumpy assisted living resident realizes his life still has surprises in store.Duffy Sinclair, 88, knows he didn?t make the most of his life. He spent years of it as an alcoholic, but in his sober old age he?s finally found a home at Centennial, an assisted living facility. He has a best friend¥his roommate, Carl, who shares everything with him. He has crushes and nemeses and playful banter with the staff members. Things are perfectÂ¥except that Centennial?s new owner will use any excuse to kick residents out so she can rent their rooms for more money, leaving them no option but a poorly run nursing home. Duffy tries to be on his best behavior and stay in lineÂ¥but then a young woman tumbles through his window. It turns out she?s Carl?s granddaughterÂ¥one Duffy never knew he had. She has a black eye, an alcohol problem, and nowhere to stayÂ¥and Carl thinks she should camp out in their room. Duffy knows that getting caught hiding an alcoholic 20-something would earn him an immediate one-way ticket out of Centennial, and at first he tells Carl and Josie no way. But as he gets to know Josie and see the kind of pain he knows all too well, Duffy realizes he might finally have a chance to make up for all those wasted years. Duffy is cantankerous, gruff, and occasionally unkind, but his head is always an entertaining place to be. It?s clear that he cares deeply about his friends and fellow Centennial residents, and it?s impossible not to root for him. Fossey manages to depict the struggles of the elderly, whose concerns aren?t often examined in fiction, in a way that?s both respectful and entertaining.A moving, funny, and ultimately hopeful look at what makes life meaningful. Life at the Centennial Assisted Living Facility is described quite realistically in this book. Duffy Sinclair, an 88-year-old resident, and recovering alcoholic, describes the daily life and adventures of the residents. He creates a lot of the tension and commotion in the facility through his own irascibility. He doesn't have much time for most of the residents, but he cares deeply for his roommate, Carl, and wants to continue living there. I didn't warm up to Duffy much during the entire book, and the humor fell flat for me in many instances. However, the details of daily life in an assisted living facility rang true, and I appreciated the description of experiences that residents were offered. I also thought that the descriptions of staff in such facilities were realistic with regard to the variation in their competence and empathy. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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"An unlikely friendship between a curmudgeonly old man and a desperate young woman delivers a funny and uplifting message about the power of human connection and how it's never too late to be the person you wanted to be. Eighty-eight-year-old Duffy Sinclair wants the last leg of his bachelor life to be strictly predictable, so Centennial Assisted Living is perfect: low-sodium meals, off-key sing-alongs, and the company of his best pal and roommate, Carl. It may not sound like much, but compared to the piss-smelling, roach-infested nursing home down the road, Centennial is paradise. There's only one problem: Carl's estranged granddaughter, Josie, has just clambered through their bedroom window. Though she claims it's a well-intentioned visit, her bare feet and black eye say otherwise. Carl begs Duffy to let her stay--she's all that's left of his family. But hiding her means risking eviction, and Duffy would rather die than move, just like he would rather die than fall off the wagon again. That's why when he sniffs out Josie's alcoholic tendencies, he has no choice but to go against Carl's wishes and chase her off. But before Duffy knows it, Josie's heartfelt plight has won him over, and he finds himself risking everything he has left to save his newfound family and discover what it really means to live"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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