The Housekeeper and the Professor follows the remarkable story of a relationship that develops despite great odds. The protagonist, a young housekeeper, becomes employed by a highly intelligent professor of mathematics. The Professor, however, has a problem: he only has eighty minutes of working memory, and all of his memories stop in 1975 as a result of a tragic car crash. Despite these difficulties, the Housekeeper and her son Root form a strong relationship with the Professor.
This book is very sweet. The prose is simple, but it is well-crafted, and the story takes a nice meandering pace. Math plays a big role in the story, but it is not beyond the mathematically inclined, and it does not prevent one from getting something out of the book. I occasionally felt like I would have appreciated more of the book if I understood more of the mathematical conversations, but I would not let an unfamiliarity with math deter one from reading it. At the very least, read it because it is so charming.
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