Joyce is a great story teller, you feel that the characters in particular Harold is perhaps your neighbor, your Dad, a friend, or yourself. Joyce delves into our sometimes humdrum mundane lives, and gives us a reason to get up, go on, seek and you shall find mentality. How a past traumatic event in ones life can alter and change your life, much because of your upbringing, the community where you live and work.
The message for me is learn from past mistakes, be kind to one another, live you life fully, don't waste precious time, last , say' I love you'.