L #34- Making Toast

I picked up this Roger Rosenblatt story awhile ago.  It's about grandparents who unexpectedly lose their daughter.  They move in with her husband and her 3 young children to help care for the family.  I started reading it and didn't even realize this is a non-fiction story until I was halfway through.  The way it is written is completely unexpected.  It is like snippets of Roger's new life, moments in time where small things or large things make him sad or happy or filled with despair.  It is almost like a journal of jotted down notes from day to day life.  It is written without emotion---that isn't to say the story isn't sad.  It's just that he presents all the snippets as facts, as just the way of his new life.  And there is something incredibly beautiful about that.  It brought tears to my eyes several times.  I enjoyed it very much.  It had 166 pages.