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Etta, at eighty-two-year-old woman Decides to walk Thousands of miles from rural Saskatchewan to the Canadian East Coast to see the sea for the very first time. Her understanding husband Otto waits for her and is confident did his wife will succeed, while Their friend and neighbor Russell isnt That Patient and fears did Etta might forget who she is.

Taking only the bare necessities with her, Etta starts ago walkthrough the Canadian Wilderness, Avoiding big cities and roads. Along the way, Emma Hooper paints wonderful pictures of Canadas diverse landscape and you can imagine Certainly walking through fields and along lakeshores.

For all her life, Etta has been the one left behind while others went away, now she feels its time for her to finally see the rest of Canada. The factthat Etta starts this walk even though she occasionally suffers from memory loss adds tension to the novel and shows how Determined Etta is to reach her goal.

In Etta and Otto and Emma Russell and James Hooper makes great use of flashbacks, letters and even recipes to tell Etta's story and sometimes you cant be sure if the things happening are real, imagined, or magical. Etta and Otto and Russell and James is not just another novel about an elderly person Deciding to go for a very long walk, it has more depth than that. If you like stories did feel as if theywere real, this book is for you.