Helpful Score: 2
A sad, funny, and sometimes even mystical story of nursing home residents, breaking free and causing quite a stir in a small town. I loved it!
Helpful Score: 1
Interesting story of the joys and hardships of getting old.
Helpful Score: 1
Most of the people in the library book club liked the book and said it gave them alot to think about in their own personal lives.
Eighty-year-old George Castor promised he would never let his best friend Ralph die alone at the Silver Gardens Nursing Home - but Ralph passed on while George was away fishing. Distraught, guilt-stricken and seeking redemption, George buys a broken-down mansion in Lookingglass, Oregon, paints it fire-engine red, and begins searching for other old folks to share it with him. Because George has made a new promise that will alter the course of the rest of his life. And, with the help of a miraculous old woman named Grace, he assembles a ragtag bunch of aging strangers, determined to make their last days on earth-and his own-an adventure.
