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Reviewed by Grant Leishman for Readers' Favorite
Recovering Maurice by Martin Zelder is a somber journey of self-analysis as Maurice Obster, a nondescript sixty-something professor, looks back at his unremarkable life marked with trauma, self-doubt, and frustration. To a great extent, Maurice’s life and his struggles began with the devastating childhood trauma that happened to his brother Emil after a series of unsuccessful neurological procedures. Emil’s subsequent difficulties and lifelong dependence on care from Maurice’s parents, himself, and professional carers loomed large over Maurice. After a series of failed professional positions and personal relationships that appeared to confirm, for Maurice, his personal and professional failings, and ultimately the death of his beloved brother Emil, he realizes it is time for him to undergo a journey of self-discovery and find out who he truly is.
Recovering Maurice is a journey that many readers will be able to identify with. Like Maurice, many of us are assailed by what we perceive as unfair treatment by life and society in general. In this nondescript and rather lackluster character of Maurice, Martin Zelder has created the personification of all our worst fears and secret doubts about ourselves. What I appreciated about Maurice’s life was that despite all the unfair occurrences life had thrown at him, he managed to find constancy and understanding from his wife, Lucia. It was fitting that it required Maurice to completely remove himself from his familiar environment and immerse himself in something completely foreign for him to finally understand the most important lesson of life: to live in the moment and embrace the future no matter what it may bring. If nothing else, this book will have readers examining their attitudes to life and how they embrace either the past or the future. It was an interesting read and one I can recommend.
