I've got about 15 books now to ruminate on nominating. Some are on the theme of silence, some about treasure/gold, some relating to "golden", some to metals. My first nomination may only be tangentially related because of the metal in its title, but it seems like there could also be something about silences in the story. It is:
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
The description really interested me. It's a novel about 'love and all its forms' and an 'autoworker in a small working-class town'.
Goodreads,
Preview, 214 pages, 2017, England
Quote:
A novel celebrating love in all of its forms and the little moments that make up the life of an autoworker in a small working-class town.
This is almost a love story. But it's not as simple as that.
Ellis and Michael are twelve-year-old boys when they first become friends, and for a long time it is just the two of them, cycling the streets of Oxford, teaching themselves how to swim, discovering poetry, and dodging the fists of overbearing fathers. And then one day this closest of friendships grows into something more.
But then we fast forward a decade or so, to find that Ellis is married to Annie, and Michael is nowhere in sight. Which leads to the question, what happened in the years between?
Tin Man is a love letter to human kindness and friendship, and to loss and living.
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