An Exclusive Love - Johanna Adorján

I read an article about this in a magazine a while ago and was intrigued, so brought it home from work last week when I had nothing to read. A slim little thing; I read it in about two hours, but felt very present in the story all the same.  Adorján begins by bluntly telling the reader the date of her grandparents' double suicide and proceeds to work her way through the background information.

She details conversations had with her grandparents' friends and acquaintances in an effort to fill in the blank spaces of their lives, with medium to minimal success. It seems her grandparents were both extraordinary and extremely private people, with many stories/secrets that will now forever stay buried. What is known of their lives is both remarkable and inspiring, as is their united final exit. It seems Adorján herself found both some closure and a new sense of home/family through her searching while writing this book. Bittersweet.