And every morning the way home gets longer and longer : a novella / Fredrik Backman ; translated by Alice Menzies ; interior illustrations by Ella Laytham.

Originally published in Swedish as "Och varje morgon blir vagen hem langre och langre" in 2015.

Translated from the Swedish.

Grandpa and Noah are sitting on a bench in a square that keeps getting smaller every day. The square is strange but also familiar, full of the odds and ends that have made up their lives: Grandpa's work desk, the stuffed dragon that Grandpa once gave to Noah, the sweet-smelling hyacinths that Grandma loved to grow in her garden. As they wait together on the bench, they tell jokes and discuss their shared love of mathematics. Grandpa recalls what it was like to fall in love with his wife, what it was like to lose her, how he dreads the day when he won't remember her. Sometimes Grandpa sits on the bench next to Ted, Noah's father, who has waited his entire life for his father to have time for him. But in their love of Noah, they have found a common bond. Grandpa, Grandma, Ted, and Noah all meet here, in this peculiar space that is growing dimmer and more confusing all the time. And here is where they will learn to say goodbye, the scent of hyacinths in the air, nothing to fear.