{"id":4937,"date":"2018-07-18T10:30:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T14:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/?p=4937"},"modified":"2018-07-19T09:55:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T13:55:52","slug":"the-story-of-arthur-truluv-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2018\/07\/the-story-of-arthur-truluv-a-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Arthur Truluv: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Elizabeth Berg &#8211; <em>Random House, 2017<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If it seems as though the bookshelves are full of crotchety-old-people stories, and you\u2019re left aching to believe that all people don\u2019t end up curmudgeons, Elizabeth Berg\u2019s <em>The Story of Arthur Truluv<\/em> may be just what the doctor (or librarian) ordered. Every day, 85-year-old Arthur Moses leaves his garden, packs a lunch and takes the bus to the cemetery to talk to Nola, his late wife. His only other regular companion is Lucille, an 80-year-old neighbor who still pines over a lost love. In the cemetery, Maddie, an 18-year-old rebel with poor taste in suitors, avoids the bullies at school and a cold father at home. When she hears Arthur talking to Nola, she names him Truluv, and an unlikely friendship forms, a kinship of those who have loved and lost. Arthur is a found treasure in Maddie\u2019s sad life, and ultimately she gives purpose to his. Soon Arthur and Lucille support Maddie and give her what she\u2019s always craved, while Maddie helps them to live independently at home. The intergenerational piece of this story is moving and reminds us how we all crave acceptance and a listening ear. Read this one to restore your faith that aging won\u2019t leave you grumpy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it seems as though the bookshelves are full of crotchety-old-people stories, and you\u2019re left aching to believe that all people don\u2019t end up curmudgeons, Elizabeth Berg\u2019s <em>The Story of Arthur Truluv<\/em> may be just what the doctor (or librarian) ordered.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2018\/07\/the-story-of-arthur-truluv-a-novel\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Story of Arthur Truluv: A Novel<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,1,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-friendships","category-voices-views","category-widows-widowers"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4937"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4942,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937\/revisions\/4942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}