Review: And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is a beautiful story between a grandfather and grandson and also a dad and son. The way this story was written was like poetry, it really touches you in more ways then one. It's hard to tell a child about Alzheimer's, especially when that person doesn't know how to tell them themselves.

Noah Noah as his grandfather calls him, and the grandfather have shared a love with each for so many reasons, both love mathematics, grandpa's jokes, both love grandma/wife, and the love between them. Grandpa wants to tell Noah Noah what is happening to him before he forgets who they both are, but there fear for grandpa, fear losing all his wonderful memories of the life with grandma and her dislike for coriander, forgetting his favorite number game, him forgetting his son, Ted, who didn't like math but loved words, and forgetting who Noah Noah is. It's also hard for Noah Noah to see grandpa forgetting things, and not understanding or knowing what's wrong with grandpa as he see's his beloved grandfather decline.

This story will make you smile, laugh, and cry, you can feel the emotions come out of the story, it will leave you breathless and speechless, it will help you see things from a child's eye, and the fear of the adult, this is a wonderful story everyone should read

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