โ Scribed by Rebecca Sugar
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
When Leonard Cohen sang, "There is a crack, a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in," he might have been describing the Frank and Cayne families in Rebecca Sugar's poignant, touching, funny, and profound debut novel.
EVERYTHING IS A LITTLE BROKEN invites readers to both laugh and cry at some of the painful, heart-wrenching and absurd moments Mira Cayne and her father, Matt Frank, experience as age and infirmity begin to take their toll. Their story will be instantly recognizable to the 41 million Americans caring for older adults in their lives.
Matt has always been Mira's hero and her rock, but he isn't bouncing back easily from his second spinal cord surgery at the age of 79. As he grows increasingly fragile, Mira looks for ways to revive his spirit, and her own. Luckily, her father is still impossibly stubborn, and can take a good wheelchair joke. Laughing at what life is doing to his dignity seems to be the only medicine with any healing power, for...
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