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All the Words We Know | Bruce Nash

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With wicked humor, genuine poignancy, and clever insight, this is an unforgettable novel about murder, secrets, and memory that is perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Fredrik Backman, and “will be loved by readers wanting to have their heart strings plucked” (The Guardian).
Rose may be in her eighties and suffering from dementia, but she’s not done with life just yet. Alternately sharp as a tack and spectacularly forgetful, she spends her days roaming the corridors of her assisted living facility, musing on the staff and residents, and enduring visits form her emotionally distant children and granddaughters. But when her friend is found dead after an apparent fall from a window, Rose embarks on an eccentric and determined investigation to discover the truth and uncover all manner of secrets…even some from her own past.

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All the Words We Know | Bruce Nash

so-so

Nash certainly commits to the perspective here. Our narrator lives in an assisted living facility & is forgetting many things— names, words & her own past, but she is also certain that all is not right there when her friend and Scrabble opponent is found dead in the parking lot. The narrator‘s struggles with words is consistent but slows the pacing—& I really didn‘t find the humor at all that others seem to have enjoyed… it was sad & frustrating.

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