Although this is a very short book (112 pages), the sheer intensity of the storytelling is breathtaking. It is unputdownable, because it confronts and explains the ongoing tragedy that we are all living with today. It challenges our humanity, refusing to let us turn away from what is happening. And what happens at the end of the story forces us to deal with our humanity, and what is required of us to be human.
My grandfather started to yield to my mother's insistence that he should visit us more often and eat with us. He was silent and soft-spoken most of the time, except for that one day when he became the angriest I have ever seen him. Mother was trying to ease the burden of his silence and told him that God won't forget him and would help them endure my grandmother's departure. I had never seen him scream that way at her or any of his children. He cried and his words were wet with sorrow.
