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Paints the portrait of an elderly man's struggle to hold on to his most precious memories and his family's efforts to care for him even as they must find a way to let go.
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46. A book set in Scandinavia
The boy carefully touches the lump on Grandpa's forehead.“Does it hurt?” he asks.“No, not really,” Grandpa replies.“I mean on the inside. Does it hurt on the inside?”“It hurts less and less. That's one good thing about forgetting things. You forget the things that hurt too.”“What does it feel like?”“Like constantly searching for something in your pockets. First you lose the small things, then it's the big ones. It starts with keys and ends with people.”“Are you scared?”“A bit. Are you?”“A bit,” the boy admits.
Felt drawn to this after We Spread (touched on themes of dementia/memory loss in a dark way, wanted to read something less eerie and more realistic in the realm of aging) and am very glad I was. Sad. Real. Having had a grandparent with memory loss for many years before his death, this hit a soft spot.