I picked up "And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer" to read on Christmas Day of 2022. At the time, I wasn't fully aware of it, but I was grappling with personal and work-related issues. As I made my way through the 96 pages of this story, many of the feelings I had been suppressing suddenly came to the surface. I was overwhelmed by a flood of emotions that I had buried deep within me, too numerous to describe in a simple post. One realization hit me particularly hard: I would be turning 50 soon, my daughters were growing up, and the inevitable day when they would move out was drawing closer. Backman’s …
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