Reading Adventures of a Curious Kat

This is sweet and heartfelt with some wonderful life-affirming messages and genuinely charming moments. It’s quiet, simple and introspective in that reminiscent, slice-of-life way that narrators looking back over their lives often use. Florence “Flo” Greene is 92-years-old and terminally ill with cancer. She has only weeks to live, but rather than sit alone in her house and feel sorry for herself, she decides to write a letter to a woman named Ruthie, who she and her husband Terrence met decades ago when Ruthie was their eight-year-old neighbor. Flo couldn’t have her own children, so Ruthie was like the daughter she never had, and now Flo intends  to leave her house and possessions to her. Along the way, Flo also meets a new neighbor named Teresa, who just happens to be a death doula to assist dying individuals and their families and a few others who eventually form a little found family. Flo is convinced Teresa is lonely and goes to no small effort to play matchmaker when she’s no...