Surviving the Seasons Author:Fern Kupfer From Library Journal — This sensitive examination of the joys and sorrows of older adults focuses on two couples. Jake and Sara Pearlman have had a passionate, loving relationship for over 40 years. Harry and June Elkind have, on the other hand, lived together more out of habit than love during most of their long marriage. Both couples have moved... more » to Florida where, in the sun-drenched artificial world of retirement communities, tragedy brings their lives together. Kupfer's empathetic treatment of older couples, her loving characterizations, and her unerring ability to illuminate those small episodes that make life meaningful combine to make this book a memorable depiction of the ordinary made universal....
Andrea Caron Kempf, Johnson Cty. Community Coll. Lib., Overland Park, Kan.
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