He eventually learns to “make himself content with his circumstances … even under the hammer of misfortune.” This is a nice prequel to the earlier Arthur Truluv book. When tragedy strikes the family, all Truluv’s puzzlement about life and his place in it are brought to the fore. One tells him: “You’re different from most other boys.” He is patient with the older people for whom he does odd jobs, and is a genuinely nice person. Truluv is a thinker, always pondering the deeper meanings behind peoples’ words and actions. Their mother is a typical housewife, and though she loves her family, she is unable to smooth out the unhappy relationship. He takes this out on the boys, especially Frank.
The boys’ father is a veteran, troubled in his work relationships and frequently angry. He is having a secret affair with one of his high school teachers. Truluv’s older brother Frank gives him advice about how to deal with girls, and encourages him when he feels inadequate. Truluv has a crush on Nola, but she is much more popular than he is, and he doesn’t feel he has a chance. This prequel book imagines Truluv as a 16-year-old and the things that formed him into that man.
You may have read Elizabeth Berg’s previous bestseller “The Story of Arthur Truluv,” about a kind elderly man in small-town Missouri. “Earth’s the Right Place for Love” by Elizabeth Berg
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