![]() ![]() Her mother died when she was two weeks old, and Maddy finds little solace in her well-meaning but emotionally distant father. Maddy finds refuge among the headstones from the mean kids at school who shun her. Every day, Arthur packs a lunch and heads to the cemetery to talk to Nola, who died six months earlier. The title character of Elizabeth Berg’s charming new novel, The Story of Arthur Truluv (Random House, 218 pp., ★★★½ out of four), gets the nickname “Truluv” from a motherless teenager named Maddy he meets in the graveyard where his beloved wife Nola lies. ![]() Arthur Moses is the antithesis of recent literature’s grumpy golden agers, such as those in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge and the popular A Man Called Ove. ![]()
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