I’ve been trying to figure out how to talk about Gail Caldwell’s wonderful memoir, Let’s Take the Long Way Home, about her friendship with Caroline Knapp (author of Drinking: A Love Story), coming in August. How do you recommend a book in which the author’s two best friends, one human and the other canine, both die?

Perhaps the best way is to simply read from it, as Caldwell does here (via Shelf Awareness):

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Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship Gail Caldwell Retail Price: $23.00 Hardcover: 208 pages Publisher: Random House – (2010-08-10) ISBN / EAN: 1400067383 / 9781400067381

Tantor Audio; UNABR; Read by Joyce Bean; Simultaneous

Trade 9781400115600 6 Audio CDs $29.99
Library 9781400145607 6 Audio CDs $59.99
MP3 9781400165605 1 MP3-CD $19.99

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