NewMexiKen read Three Weeks with My Brother last night. It’s a memoir framed within a three-week around-the-world trip novelist Nicholas Sparks took with his brother Micah early in 2003. As it says on the jacket, “It was to mark a milestone in their lives, for at thirty-seven and thirty-eight respectively, they were now the only surviving members of their family.”
NewMexiKen expected a travel narrative, but—while there is a bit of descriptive material—the story is much more a memoir of growing up in the Sparks family. As such, it is funny, enlightening in a way, and emotionally moving. I can’t compare it to Sparks’ novels, as I haven’t read any, but I get the sense it may be similar. In any case, it kept me at it until 1 AM.
Sparks has a number of excerpts on line.