Will’s just discovering love and learning to live his life, and he has this wide-eyed naivete towards his grandfather and his beautiful bride.
It helps that the story is told from 14-year-old Will’s point of view, which adds to the innocence. From the Grandpa getting a second chance at a kind of youth to his wife, Miss Love, getting a second chance at happiness (she has a very sad life story) to Will’s aunt getting a second chance at chasing her dreams. It sounds a bit creepy (everyone I described the plot to said, “Ew” as their first reaction), it’s really not it’s more a story of second chances. But, the summer Will Tweedy’s grandmother dies, his Grandpa decides to shake everything - including everyone’s expectations - upside down by marrying, a mere three weeks after the death, a woman half his age. Everyone knows their place in society, and how to behave. Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there! And I ain’t a-go’n to say it but once’t.'” First sentence: “Three weeks after Granny Blakeslee died, Grandpa came to our house for his early morning snort of whiskey, as usual, and said to me, ‘Will Tweedy? Go find yore mama, then run up to yore Aunt Loma’s and tell her I said git on down here.
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