“Another year, and I still don’t like old people.” Hendrik Groen decides to start 2013 by keeping a diary of his days at a care home in North Amsterdam. He has many opinions on “the oldies” as he calls them, and about the world at large, that he shares amidst the everyday monotony of the… Read More The Secret Life of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old by Hendrik Groen
An unusual story about two older women – one black, one white – in South Africa who lived through apartheid and have been neighbors for the past 20 years. Their mutual disdain for each other is legendary but, when circumstances throw them together, will they realize they have more in common than they thought? Their… Read More The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso
Another feel-good story along the lines of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand and A Man Called Ove. Arthur Pepper’s wife, Miriam, died a year ago. As Arthur faces turning 70 without her, he finally gets the nerve to go through her clothes and finds a charm bracelet. One charm leads to India, a place he never… Read More The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
