This novel deeply explores a married couple in their golden years, from when they met across big ups, deep downs, and survive-it-all, opposites-attract love.

Abe and Ruth meet through mutual friends, set up an a pretty awful blind date.  But despite the start, these two get together and spend the next seventy years married and devoted to each other.  The story starts in the present timeline as we see Abe turning 90 and then we go back and forth to how they met, and follow them through several decades of life together.  They marry, move to a farm on Bainbridge Island and raise 4 children together.  Their path was definitely not an easy one, they are two very different people, which causes lots of strife and many problems through the years.  But deep down, they have such a strong and abiding love for one another.  Something as simple as a loose tooth for Ruth turns into so much more.  We watch these two come to terms with their past and prepare for the twilight years together.  Neither one is sure how they will make it without the other when the worst comes around.  I did not always like Ruth as a person, and really questioned a lot of her decisions.  Abe could be quite set in his ways and difficult too.  It was a testament to love watching them stick it out through the rough times and be there for each other when they were really needed.  If you enjoy a book with older protagonists, give this one a try.