Book
3 of 3 Copies Available
- CENTRAL: First Floor Collection (2 copies)
- OSHTEMO: Adult Stacks
The red address book
Call Number
- FICTION LUND (CEN, OSH)
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
Physical Description
260 pages ; 22 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
Meet Doris, a 96-year-old woman living alone in her Stockholm apartment. She has few visitors, but her weekly Skype calls with Jenny--her American grandniece, and her only relative--give her great joy and remind her of her own youth. When Doris was a girl, she was given an address book by her father, and ever since she has carefully documented everyone she met and loved throughout the years. Looking through the little book now, Doris sees the many crossed-out names of people long gone and is struck by the urge to put pen to paper. In writing down the stories of her colorful past--working as a maid in Sweden, modelling in Paris during the 30s, fleeing to Manhattan at the dawn of the Second World War--can shehelp Jenny, haunted by a difficult childhood, unlock the secrets of their family and finally look to the future? And whatever became of Allan, the love of Doris's life?