

A charming little story about smart appliances in a smart home watching over the senior man and woman living inside it. As appliances, they don't quite understand concepts like "beauty" or metaphors, but they are trying and slowly do learn about them over the course of the book.
Edie, the wife, becomes ill, and life for everyone becomes upended - even for the appliances - as they navigate through this challenge.
Some authors have a way of building tension slowly throughout the entirety of a book, and Glenn Dixon did this wonderfully in this one. The whole time I was reading I was both excited and apprehensive as to what would happen next, becoming attached to both the human characters and appliances in the process.
This book has some simple but beautiful prose, some nice musical imagery as there is some piano playing involved, and an interesting idea at the heart of it all. The ending was beautiful and really tied it all together too, bringing me to tears in the process (I have been picking tearjerkers as of late, apparently).
I thoroughly enjoyed this book from start to finish and highly highly recommend.
A charming little story about smart appliances in a smart home watching over the senior man and woman living inside it. As appliances, they don't quite understand concepts like "beauty" or metaphors, but they are trying and slowly do learn about them over the course of the book.
Edie, the wife, becomes ill, and life for everyone becomes upended - even for the appliances - as they navigate through this challenge.
Some authors have a way of building tension slowly throughout the entirety of a book, and Glenn Dixon did this wonderfully in this one. The whole time I was reading I was both excited and apprehensive as to what would happen next, becoming attached to both the human characters and appliances in the process.
This book has some simple but beautiful prose, some nice musical imagery as there is some piano playing involved, and an interesting idea at the heart of it all. The ending was beautiful and really tied it all together too, bringing me to tears in the process (I have been picking tearjerkers as of late, apparently).
I thoroughly enjoyed this book from start to finish and highly highly recommend.