Haruf’s story accumulates resonance through carefully chosen details the novel is quiet but never complacent.” - The New Yorker “A delicate, sneakily devastating evocation of place and character. He has given us a powerful, pared-down story of two characters who refuse to go gentle into that good night.” -Lynn Rosen, The Philadelphia Enquirer As a meditation on life and forthcoming death, Haruf couldn’t have done any better. “A fitting close to a storied career, a beautiful rumination on aging, accommodation, and our need to connect. “Lateness-and second chances-have always been a theme for Haruf. But here, in a book about love and the aftermath of grief, in his final hours, he has produced his most intense expression of that yet. Packed into less than 200 pages are all the issues late life provokes.” -John Freeman, The Boston Globe spare but eloquent, bittersweet yet hopeful.” -Kurt Rabin, The Fredericksburg Freelance-Star The novel is a plainspoken, vernacular farewell.” -Catherine Holmes, The Charleston Post and Courier Haruf's fiction ratifies ordinary, nonflashy decency, but he also knows that even the most placid lives are more complicated than they appear from the outside. “More Winesburg that Mayberry, Holt and its residents are shaped by physical solitude and emotional reticence.
