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“Female friendship is the beatingheart of this book...
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Let’s Take the Long Way Home
A Memoir of Friendshipby Gail Caldwell
T
hey met over their dogs. Gail Caldwell and CarolineKnapp (author of
Drinking: A Love Story
) became bestfriends, talking about everything from their love of booksand their shared history of a struggle with alcohol to theirrelationships with men. Walking the woods of New Eng-land and rowing on the Charles River, these two private,self-reliant women created an attachment more profoundthan either of them could ever have foreseen. Then, sev-eral years into this remarkable connection, Knapp was di-agnosed with cancer. With her signature exquisite prose,Caldwell mines the deepest levels of devotion, and couragein this gorgeous memoir about treasuring a best friend, andcoming of age in midlife.
Let’s Take the Long Way Home
isa celebration of the profound transformations that comefrom intimate connection—and it afrms, once again, why Gail Caldwell is recognized as one of our bravest and mosthonest literary voices.
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