book from this author? The author of A Man Called Ove has
a new book (book #4) coming out.
The October 3rd issue of Publisher's Weekly features
a Spotlight on Fredrik Backman . Backman's new book,
available next May 2017, is And Every Morning the Way
Home Gets Longer and Longer.
He wrote the following letter to explain why this book
is meaningful to him.
Dear Reader,
One of my idols once said, "The worst part about growing old is that I don't get any
ideas anymore." Those words have never quite left me since, because this would be my
greatest fear: imagination giving up before the body does. I guess I'm not alone in this.
Humans are a strange breed in the way our fear of getting old seems even greater than our
fear of dying.
This is a story about memories, and about letting go. It's a love letter and a slow farewell
between a man and his grandson, and between a dad and his boy.
I never meant for you to read it, to be quite honest. I wrote it just because I was trying
to sort out my own thoughts, and I'm the kind of person who needs to see what I'm thinking
on paper to make sense of it. But it turned into a small tale of how I'm dealing with slowly losing
the greatest minds I know, about missing someone who is till here, and how I wanted
to explain it all to my children. I'm letting it go now, for what it's worth.
It's about fear and love, and how they seem to go hand in hand most of the time. Most
of all it's about time. While we still have it. Thank you for giving this story yours.
Sincerely,
Fredrik Backman
Book Discussion of A Man Called Ove is Thursday, November 3rd, 10 - 11:30 AM in the
Community Room of the Clarkston Independence District Library. I hope to see you there!