A young woman gets on the bus and rides out of the big city. She arrives in the countryside, where she is as big as a giant, looming over a tiny house, a garden and her tiny grandmother. The cabbages and the apple trees are far below. Her grandmother smiles up at her in her yellow hat. The young woman bends down to give her little grandmother a big kiss, and then she smells her grandmother’s cooking. She has returned home. When they sit down at the table, the young woman has shrunk to a child-like size, and the two share a meal together in the garden. My thoughts My grandfather was a fantastic cook. Whenever my mum was there to visit him and we sat down for a meal, she had this unforgettable expression on her face: pure bliss. I remember trying to understand their complex relationship of a father and a grown-up daughter with her own adult responsibilities. She told me that you are always a child as long as one of your parents is alive and only now I am beginning to understand her words. Thank you to Edelweiss and Ingram Publisher Services for the ARC provided in return for an honest opinion. Title: The return
Author: Natalia Chernysheva Publisher: Groundwood Books Expected date of publication: October 2019 Comments are closed.
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