Bøger af Michael Zadoorian

Ella og John Robina har været et par i mere end tres år og har haft et vidunderligt liv sammen. Nu har de begge passeret de firs år, hun har kræft og han har Alzherimers. Ella vil så gerne opleve et sidste eventyr med sin mand, inden hans hukommelse svigter for altid. Så de pakker deres gamle camper og stikker af fra overbeskyttende børn og læger – og begiver sig afsted på en sidste ferie sammen. Rejsen går ad en vej beklædt med minder fra et langt ægteskab. Mens John styrer bilen og kæmper med at huske, går det mere og mere op for Ella, at det er op til hende, hvordan deres historie ender. "En sidste ferie er en sådan bog, man absolut skal læse og bør ligge i ethvert handskerum- uanset bilisternes alder- 5 stjerner- Fyns stiftstidende

Ella og John Robina har været et par i mere end tres år og har haft et vidunderligt liv sammen. Nu har de begge passeret de firs år, hun har kræft og han har Alzherimers. Ella vil så gerne opleve et sidste eventyr med sin mand, inden hans hukommelse svigter for altid. Så de pakker deres gamle camper og stikker af fra overbeskyttende børn og læger – og begiver sig afsted på en sidste ferie sammen. Rejsen går ad en vej beklædt med minder fra et langt ægteskab. Mens John styrer bilen og kæmper med at huske, går det mere og mere op for Ella, at det er op til hende,hvordan deres historie ender.

At last, the novel for everyone who has ever loved something secondhand-the High Fidelity of garage sales, the On the Road of thrift shopping, The Moviegoer of the flea market. Richard owns a secondhand store ("Satori Junk") just outside Detroit. He's the kind of guy for whom not much happens, until it happens all at once: his mother dies. He rummages his parents' basement for good junk and finds (alongside "every purse my mother has ever owned since the Fifties") a box of photos that changes his view of everything. He falls apart over his mother's notes on his favorite meal in an old cookbook. He meets Theresa, a fellow hipster, a thrift-attired junk goddess who shares his feeling for castaways, and he falls for her-hard. Along the way he acquires some junk wisdom about love and loss.Richard's inimitable, hilarious, philosophical, self-deprecating, yearning voice, and his sharp and loving eye for common foibles and unexpected virtues make for a comic novel crammed full of surprise and pleasure. Second Hand is peppered with insight as unpretentious and satisfying as the unexpected garage sale find. Junk, Richard tells us, "has taught me that to find new use for an object discarded is an act of glistening purity. I have learned that a camera case makes a damn fine purse or that 40 copies of 'Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass's Whipped Cream and Other Delights' may be used to cover a wall of a bedroom...Junk has taught me that all will come to junk eventually, and much sooner than you think."

Zadoorian's previous novel, Beautiful Music (Akashic, May 2018) was a 2018 Michigan Notable Book and the Adult Fiction winner for the 2018 Great Lakes Great Reads program, presented by the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association.The novel was also a best seller in Michigan.Zadoorian is confirmed for 2019 Heartland Fall Forum's Moveable Feast program on 10/4/19.Beautiful Music was an indie bookseller staff pick at Boswell's, Fountain Bookstore, and McLean & Eakin.Zadoorian did numerous, well-attended book events throughout the region and garnered a lot of support from indie stores and libraries throughout Michigan, as well as in Wisconsin, Illinois, Windsor, Ontario; he also appeared at the Miami Book Fair.Zadoorian participated in Winter Institute 2018.Beautiful Music received great review coverage in: O, The Oprah Magazine, Washington Post, Detroit Metro Times, Detroit Free Press, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, etc.Like Beautiful Music, The Narcissism of Small Differences is set in Detroit, and in many ways it is an homage to the city.Hardcover, paperback, and e-book released simultaneously.

Now a major motion picture starring Oscar award-winners Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland, coming January 2018 from Sony Pictures Classics Official SelectionToronto Film FestivalVenice Film Festival ?The Leisure Seeker is pretty much like life itself: joyous, painful, moving, tragic, mysterious, and not to be missed.??Booklist, starred reviewThe Robinas have shared a wonderful life for more than sixty years. Now in their eighties, Ella suffers from cancer and John has Alzheimer's. Yearning for one last adventure, the self-proclaimed "down-on-their-luck geezers" kidnap themselves from the adult children and doctors who seem to run their lives and steal away from their home in suburban Detroit on a forbidden vacation of rediscovery. With Ella as his vigilant copilot, John steers their '78 Leisure Seeker RV along the forgotten roads of Route 66 toward Disneyland in search of a past they're having a damned hard time remembering. Yet Ella is determined to prove that, when it comes to life, you can go back for seconds?even when everyone says you can't.

A funny, poignant, thoughtfully rendered novel about love, fear, death, race, music, and the intense passions of youth.

*Now a major motion picture starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland*