This book has been around for a few months now and although I checked it out from the library a while ago, I had to return it before I got around to reading it. I'm so glad I didn't just decide to move on to other books and forgetting this one.
It was so, so good.
Abe and Ruth Warneke are an older couple - Abe just celebrated his ninetieth birthday, and Ruth is a spry eighty-seven.
This is a beautiful portrait of a marriage- the love, frustration, joy, loss- that spans over seventy years. From a disastrous first date that left Ruth disinterested in Abe, to a bowling rematch that created an opportunity for Ruth to see Abe a bit differently, this story follows this couple through the years.
And as Ruth faces a health crisis when a loose tooth ends up being something much more (and much worse), the two remain together: solid and still in love.
This is a book that every married couple should read. There is a lot of wisdom in Levison's story and anyone who has been married for a length of time can relate to Abe or Ruth and different points in this novel.
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