Our Souls at Night

'And then there was the day when Addie Moore made a call on Louis Waters.' With that ordinary declaration Kent Haruf begins an endearing relationship between two lonely souls in need of more than company in the empty hours of the night. Addie, 'a medium sized 70 year-old woman with white hair' knows that it takes something more than a hand to hold, or a warm body in bed beside you during the long hours of the night. She will at last in her life, that had been lived well but joylessly, discover with a stranger what real conversation and heart felt talk in the long hours of the dark can do to lift the soul and fill the heart. Louis and Addie invite us to share this newly discovered bond with them and in doing so, Kent Haruf has much to show his readers about life and love. It's a great read.