Universal need for love, acceptance, purpose and connection. Vastly different in age, worldview and temperament, but they express a Gradually added to the mix is Lucille,Īrthur's meddlesome, 83-year-old, never married next-door neighbor, who faces a She nicknames him 'Truluv' because he speaks Maddy meets compassionate Arthur, their shared affinity for the dead sparks an Rejected his daughter and ultimately shaped her into a loner. The tragedy and its aftermath drove a wedgeīetween her and her father, who, tormented by his own grief, emotionally

Maddy calls the dead 'her people,' as her mother died in a car crash Harris-an 18-year-old with a nose ring, who also finds graveyards The simple gesture of a hand wave brings Maddy Surrounding, underground graves-'Nola's neighbors'-and he imagines There, he takes comfort in cleverly conjuring visions of the dead in Rides a bus everyday to the cemetery and eats his brown bag lunch graveside A retired parks groundskeeper and an amateur gardener, he Isolation: Arthur Moses is an 85-year-old grieving the loss of his beloved Or listen to the audio book with an Audible trial.In The Story of Arthur Truluv, Elizabeth Berg ( The Dream Lover) focuses onĬontrasting characters whose lives share common threads of loneliness and Wonderfully written and full of profound observations about life, The Story of Arthur Truluv is a beautiful and moving novel of compassion in the face of loss, of the small acts that turn friends into family, and of the possibilities to achieve happiness at any age.

Moved by Arthur’s kindness and devotion, Maddy gives him the nickname “Truluv.” As Arthur’s neighbor Lucille moves into their orbit, the unlikely trio band together and, through heartache and hardships, help one another rediscover their own potential to start anew. One afternoon she joins Arthur–a gesture that begins a surprising friendship between two lonely souls. The last thing Arthur would imagine is for one unlikely encounter to utterly transform his life.Įighteen-year-old Maddy Harris is an introspective girl who visits the cemetery to escape the other kids at school.

An emotionally powerful novel about three people who each lose the one they love most, only to find second chances where they least expect them.įor the past six months, Arthur Moses’s days have looked the same: He tends to his rose garden and to Gordon, his cat, then rides the bus to the cemetery to visit his beloved late wife for lunch.

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