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Title:
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Everything Lost, Everything Found |
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Authors:
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Hooton, Matthew |
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Genre:
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Fiction |
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Pages:
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288 |
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Year:
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2025 |
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Publisher:
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Harper Collins |
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Language:
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English |
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Description:
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Jack, a retired plumber, is facing what comes to us all, if we live long enough: old age. His wife Grace has dementia and Jack’s days of independence are numbered. As he grapples with his encroaching frailty, he wrestles too with the memories of his traumatic childhood in Fordlandia, Brazil, site of Henry Ford’s failed rubber plantation and American colony. Moving between 1990s Michigan and Fordlandia’s heyday in 1929, this a poignant, multilayered story of grief and memory, and disquieting industrial history.
Comments from BDS Reviewers:"It's a multi-layered story with a savage takedown of Ford's lunatic ambition and of great loss, coupled with the trauma of remembering".
"From a slow start, the book becomes a very good read, as the memories of his youth contrast with his old age and declining health."
"Loved the author's innovative descriptions e.g. 'insect-full beams of light'; 'the flutter-hush of a thousand pair of brightly coloured wings'..."
"A tender, moving and evocative story of love, loss, memory and aging".
"Liked the theme of losing what is precious but finding memories and relationships to treasure".
"There are many excellent characters in this story and relationships are beautifully portrayed".
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Categories:
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Fiction, Adventure/Exploration, Culture/Ethnic/Racial, Environmental, Faction, Family Saga, Grief/loss, Historical, Medical/Health, Relationships, Travel, USA, Brazil, Just Added, 2027 Titles |
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