Coffins of Little Hope / Timothy Schaffert / 262 pages

Okay, well you just need to read this book so we can talk about it. Coffins of Little Hope is wonderful with characters that you want to know better or maybe already know. Main character is 83 year old S (Esther/Essie) Myles who grew up in a small town in Nebraska and whose life work is writing the obituaries for her father's and now her grandson Doc's newspaper the County Paragraph. A young girl goes missing, if she really ever existed, and their town and lives are turned upside down. It's a fascinating look at a long life, how events change our lives, and how we evolve by what happens to us. It has humor, disappointment, hope, and pluck. At the end, we do all feel like we were young yesterday. Get your book discussion groups going on this one.