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The Museum of Ordinary People by Mike Gayle
4.0
The older you get, the more home becomes about people rather than place. The older you get, the more roots are about where you want to be, rather than where you come from.
Mike Gayle writes like he has lived a life so thoroughly touched by what it means to be human, and although [b:The Museum of Ordinary People|56436901|The Museum of Ordinary People|Mike Gayle|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1649970774l/56436901._SY75_.jpg|88019491] still pales in comparison to [b:All the Lonely People|51642969|All the Lonely People|Mike Gayle|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1603906067l/51642969._SY75_.jpg|76214901], I still very much recommend it.
There are instances where things are so coincidental I had to suspend my belief, but they were relatively few and far between. I felt the additional complication at the end with her family member was very last minute and came out of the blue, but I'm choosing to see that as another form of MC reassessing her life. Grief definitely makes us reassess everything around us. Most of the time this is internal, but other times, such as this, it is external.
Mike Gayle writes like he has lived a life so thoroughly touched by what it means to be human, and although [b:The Museum of Ordinary People|56436901|The Museum of Ordinary People|Mike Gayle|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1649970774l/56436901._SY75_.jpg|88019491] still pales in comparison to [b:All the Lonely People|51642969|All the Lonely People|Mike Gayle|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1603906067l/51642969._SY75_.jpg|76214901], I still very much recommend it.
There are instances where things are so coincidental I had to suspend my belief, but they were relatively few and far between. I felt the additional complication at the end with her family member was very last minute and came out of the blue, but I'm choosing to see that as another form of MC reassessing her life. Grief definitely makes us reassess everything around us. Most of the time this is internal, but other times, such as this, it is external.