A Little Hope by Ethan Joella
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
“She has learned from his dying that there is much she can do. She has also learned some things are unfixable. Which is this?”
This book takes place in the small town of Wharton, Connecticut and moves around different characters who are connected to each other, some loosely, some tightly. It tackles a lot of life events like cancer, addiction, suicide, loneliness, and more.
The characters are so real in this quiet and lovely book that it reminded me of both Anne Tyler’s novels and Olive Kitteridge. It’s a similar feeling of getting more and more attached these ordinary characters who are experiencing ordinary and tough life situations and they are so real that you can’t help but feel their feelings alongside them.
“Good for them, Freddie thinks. Good for them. She could write an essay about forgiving Greg for anything if it meant they could get to Alex and Kay’s age. She could get over any single thing—an affair, a gambling problem. Two affairs even. She never felt that way before, but now she knows, without hesitation, she could get past anything. She could forgive Greg for a whole list of things, except dying.”
I loved every single second I spent with this book. I cannot recommend it enough.
with gratitude to Scribner, netgalley and edelweiss for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review
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