Forever Friday
A Novel
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- 55,00 kr
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- 55,00 kr
Utgivarens beskrivning
Every Friday, a postcard.
Every Friday, a love poem.
Every Friday for sixty years.
Adam Colby is just doing his job, sorting through the unsold Alexander belongings after the estate sale. He is unprepared for what he finds in an old photo album, overlooked by the bargain hounds and treasure hunters—six decades of postcards and poems from Gabe Alexander to his wife, Pearl. The mystery of the Alexanders’ love entices Adam, a man unhinged by divorce and puzzled by the depth of commitment that he finds in the unabashedly romantic cards.
Forever Friday invites you to travel back in time to the early twentieth century Texas Coastal Bend where a young couple—Gabe and Pearl Alexander—are swept up in a miraculous love. As the heartwarming, pulse-quickening story of their relationship develops through Gabe’s poems, the Alexanders reveal a new way to consider what it means to be truly devoted to each other. Could the secrets of their love affair, laid to rest twenty years ago, hold the key to one man’s future?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Adam Colby, a lonely divorced man searching for the secret to lasting love, happens upon a package of postcards that contains the story of Gabe and Pearl "Huck" Alexander. Readers are taken back to south Texas in the 1920s, when Gabe and Huck meet and marry within a matter of weeks. Gabe begins writing a poetic postcard to Huck every Friday as part of their agreement to protect their relationship. Years go by with plenty of drama and equal amounts of romance. Adam finds inspiration in their love story, but readers may be less inspired. While the characters of Gabe and Huck are lively and engaging, the "secret to lasting love" on what Gabe calls "the long division" where children, jobs, and the details of life threaten their close relationship. Spiritual references are limited to Huck's "Mister Jack," a mysterious savior-like figure. Straddling the line between sweet and sappy, the book is Nicholas Sparks lite: engrossing and emotional but lacking enough depth to make it truly memorable.
