#18 Every Last Cuckoo

#18
Every Last Cuckoo
Kate Maloy
2008
277
Fiction
5 out of 5
Library

This well written, thoughtful book wasn’t written for me. But it was written for me in later years when I need a road map on how to deal with loss and new life and how to see grandchildren for all the things that I can’t see in my own kids now. It’s written for the woman that misses her husband and isn’t still yelling at him for putting the clothes NEXT to the hamper and not IN the hamper. It’s written for the woman who is looking for the larger picture in life and not still consumed by the day in and day out mundane tasks that get us from point A to Point B.

This is the how to guide on growing gracefully and how the small things like caring for those that have no one else will make you life worth living. How when you have nothing left inside, you can still find more when you care for others.

Meet seventy five year old Sarah Lucas, her peaceful life has come to a crashing end when her husband of 50 years, Charles, has a sudden and devastating accident leaving Sarah alone and inconsolable. She is left with her memories and her questions. Her loses and her joys.

Unable to say no, that is not what her parents did, she opens her home to a rag tag group of people. First her granddaughter and her friends, then an Israeli pacifist, two fire victims, a young abused mother and her child, anyone and everyone one who needs a new start or a family to call their own. Slowly, they all come together and gain the confidence they need or the support they were looking for to rebuild their lives and to fly the nest.

This is a remarkable story of how you have choices in life, and when Sarah made the choice to take care of others, she took care of herself.

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