Read The Summer Book last month. A grandmother and a granddaughter on a tiny island. They talk about moss and storms and death and worms. No plot. Just small conversations and quiet observations. It made me remember what it felt like to have nothing to do and nowhere to be. I am forty three years old and I cried over a children's author writing for grown ups.
Does anyone know another book that captures that same slow attentive wonder without being precious about it?
by bigpanda1992
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Two similar but different books:
A Psalm for the Wild Built is a future utopia where a monk and a robot encounter each other on their travels have a lot of existentialist conversations. I was all the way at the end when I finally realized nothing was going to “happen” and yet I was weeping
The Education of Little Tree is about a biracial kid who goes to live with his Native American grandparents. This one has more typical plot but is still a gentle book that’s mostly about wisdom being passed down over the course of living your life