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Our Souls at Night


This is low-key, evocative short novel about the pursuit of happiness, second chances and perhaps most importantly about our deep emotional need of companionship and intimacy.

Louis and Addie are both widowed, lonely and in their twilight of their lives.
So Addie visits Louis one night and comes up with a rather unique proposition:

You are probably wonder what I'm doing here, she said.
Well, I didn't think you came to tell me that my house looks nice.
No.
I want to suggest something to you.
Oh?
Yes, a kind of proposal.
Okay.
Not marriage, she said.
I didn't think that either.
I wonder if you would consider coming to my house sometimes to sleep with me.
What? How do you mean?
I mean we are both alone. We've been by ourselves for too long.
For years.
I am lonely.
I think you might be too.
I wonder if you would come and sleep with me in the night with me.
And talk.

After a very short consideration, Louis accepts Addie's offer and so it begins their journey to chase what most probably is their last chance at achieving happiness and fulfillment in their lives.

That Mr. Haruf wrote this last novel, published posthumously, while he was dying, makes this book all the more remarkable.

Louis and Addie are both wonderful and noble characters and through it all your are rooting for them. It seems that through them the author was trying to remind us of the little things that really matter in life.

The outdoor scenes are wonderful and encouraged me to go outside, to enjoy and connect with nature again, something that many of us city folk frequently forget to do.

This story felt authentic, special and pure.