The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa surprised me. I thought it would be a slow-burning romance novel. What a difficult book to describe. The book is set in Japan in 1992. A young housekeeper is sent by her agency to the home of a brilliant mathematics professor. Nine previous housekeepers have come and gone. This intuitive and curious current housekeeper faces the challenge of caring for a gifted lover of numbers who, because of a traumatic brain injury, can only remember new things for eighty minutes. Every day, she must reintroduce herself and gain his trust and cooperation. How do you connect with someone who won't remember you the next day? Ogawa takes elements like mathematics, baseball, found family, and care and creates a lyrical, lovely story.
I read Jodi McAlister's third book in her series last week. Oops. Here for the Right Reasons is book one. The books are both intertwined and can be read independently of each other. It is fun knowing things about side characters in the book that aren't revealed in this one. McAlister, I've since learned, is an academic who specializes in the study of popular culture. To quote her website: Jodi’s work life means that reading romance novels and watching (and let’s be real, writing huge amounts about) The Bachelor/ette is technically work for her. https://jodimcalister.com.au/ Can I get that job?
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