Three Things About Elsie
As Florence lies waiting on the floor for someone to notice that she has fallen, she recalls key moments in her life. I found this moment, sad. Florence is supposedly being taken care of in an assistant living center and the longer I read, I had to wonder how long it was going to be before someone actually found her. This notion stayed with me as I read the rest of the novel.
Florence lives at Cherry Tree homes for the elderly with her best friend Elsie. They enjoy watching the world from Florence’s window. When an elderly residence passes away, Florence comments about how quickly life and possessions are taken away and disappear. It isn’t long before a new resident moves in to fill the vacancy. Florence believes this man is someone from their past but yet, the man’s name is not the same.
It becomes a mystery as Florence and Elsie investigate this new residence’s identity. This man who looks and talks like a man from their past yet his name does not match the man they used to know.
I enjoyed the author’s writings, some of her sentences were fantastic and worth highlighting (but not in a library’s copy). I still had this concern about Florence as she laid on the floor while telling this story, which was troubling to me. I enjoyed the story, just not as much as I thought I would.
