Our Souls at Night

"It's just two old people talking in the dark."

Kent Haruf

Our Souls at Night

This novel was beautiful. Kent Harufs writing style is amazing and poetic, I read the entire thing in one sitting, just being pulled along by the magnificent sentence structure and story telling. This is the first of his books that I have read and I cannot wait to read the rest.

One night Addie, an old woman whose husband died and son moved away, asks her neighbor Louis, a widower, if he would come sleep in her bed at night and talk to ward of the loneliness. This wonderfully awkward and forward invitation leads to the sweetest and most heartfelt of love stories that I have ever read. As the two get to know each other, Addies young grandson, Jamie, comes to live with her for the summer, and the poignant story that follows is a wonderful tale about making the most of life, dealing with the curve balls as they come and living with no regrets. 

I can't get over how wonderful this book is. The way he wrote about the landscape and the weather (it's set in a fictional town in Colorado and the way Haruf described all of these places I had been made me feel like I had stepped into a patch of home in a book) was phenomenal. The characters were charming, and the story was amazing and heartfelt.