The Story of Arthur Truluv, Elizabeth Berg
The Story of Arthur Truluv, Elizabeth Berg
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The Story of Arthur Truluv

Author: Elizabeth Berg

Series: Mason #1

Narrator: Elizabeth Berg

Unabridged: 6 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/21/2017

Categories: Fiction, Women


Synopsis

From New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Berg comes a wise and emotionally powerful novel about three people who’ve lost the ones they love most, only to find second chances where they least expect them.

For the past six months, Arthur Moses’s days have looked the same: He tends to his rose garden and to Gordon, his cat, then rides the bus to the cemetery to visit his beloved late wife for lunch. The last thing Arthur would imagine is for one unlikely encounter to utterly transform his life.

Eighteen-year-old Maddy Harris is an introspective girl who visits the cemetery to escape the other kids at school. One afternoon she joins Arthur—a gesture that begins a surprising friendship between two lonely souls. Moved by Arthur’s kindness and devotion, Maddy gives him the nickname “Truluv.” As Arthur’s neighbor Lucille moves into their orbit, the unlikely trio band together and, through heartache and hardships, help one another rediscover their own potential to start anew.

Wonderfully written and full of profound observations about life, The Story of Arthur Truluv is a beautiful and moving novel of compassion in the face of loss, of the small acts that turn friends into family, and of the possibilities to achieve happiness at any age.

About Elizabeth Berg

Elizabeth Berg is the New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including The Year of Pleasures, The Art of Mending, Say When, True to Form, Never Change, and Open House, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection in 2000. Durable Goods and Joy School were selected as ALA Best Books of the Year, and Talk Before Sleep was short-listed for the ABBY award in 1996. The winner of the 1997 New England Booksellers Award for her body of work, Berg is also the author of a nonfiction work, Escaping Into the Open: The Art of Writing True. She lives in Chicago.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Always on September 20, 2020

Maybe there's something wrong with me but I didn't think this was that great but everyone else seemed to love it and maybe I'm just not in the place of mind to enjoy it? It kind of reminded me A Man Called Ove but not as good. It wasn't bad per se but it felt like quite a few parts of it fell flat f......more

Goodreads review by Angela M on April 19, 2017

It's sweet, predictably sad yet uplifting , maybe a little sappy , and I loved reading it ! Nothing earth shattering happens except in the small world of eighty five year Arthur who has lost his wife and seventeen year old Maddy who lost her mother at birth and loses her father to his grief. They me......more

Goodreads review by Jaline on November 26, 2018

The Story of Arthur Truluv is one of those novels that, in my personal lexicon, I refer to as True Life Novels. I know them by how the characters and the incidents in their lives are authentic, sympathetic, cover a wide range of topics, are almost always inspiring in ways small, medium, or large - a......more

Goodreads review by Debra on November 22, 2017

"What is it that makes a family? Certainly no document does, no legal pronouncement or accident of birth. No, real families come from choices we make about who we want to be bound to, and the ties to such families lie in our hearts." This is a book about three individuals who have relatively little i......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader on January 27, 2018

4 sweet, feel-good, “true love 💗” stars to The Story of Arthur Truluv ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ I listened to the audio of this special story, which was narrated by the author, Elizabeth Berg. Her voice and inflection suited the storytelling perfectly. At first Arthur seemed a little quirky (even a little “Ove-y”......more