100 Uplifting Stories for Seniors

You remember more than you think.

A dollar spent at Gimbels the Tuesday after Thanksgiving in 1945. A frozen dinner that cost ninety-eight cents and took twenty-five minutes. A queue around the block in May of 1977. The night the whole street crowded into whoever had the biggest television set.

A hundred short stories. About two and a half minutes each.

From the 1940s through the 1990s - the decades you lived through, told one small moment at a time. A woman sewing a service flag with a crooked star. A man who queues ninety minutes for a spring that walks downstairs. A grandmother who reaches out of her armchair to put one hand on a Twister mat. An eleven-year-old who watches the moon landing and remembers the room instead of the screen.

Everything in these stories really happened.

The prices, the dates, the programmes, the products. Where a story says a television dinner cost ninety-eight cents and took twenty-five minutes, that is what it cost and how long it took. The people are invented. The world they move through is not - and the book tells you so plainly rather than leaving you to wonder.

Written for grown-ups.

No baby talk. No lesson tacked on the end. No story that treats a reader as though the years took something away. Plain words carrying adult subjects - work, money, marriage, the things people didn't say to each other.

Inside:
• A hundred stories across six decades
• A question after every one, written to be asked out loud
• Real dates, real prices, real programmes
• Start anywhere - nothing depends on what came before
• Six original illustrations, one for every decade

A gift that comes with something to say.

One story is about the right length for a visit. The question at the end is there so you have somewhere to start - for reading alone, reading together, or handing to someone you don't quite know how to begin a conversation with.