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Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

Gail Caldwell

Start date: December 1, 2010

Finish date: January 31, 2011

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Dec 15, 2011 Erika Nerdypants rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-2011, non-fiction, memoir, absolute-favourites, women-s-lit, grieving, relationships

This book really touched me on many levels. It is the story of friendship between Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp, one of my favourtie authors (I loved "Drinking" and "Why Women Want". Caldwell describes the intimate friendship that develops between the two women who are both soically akward and shy. I can so relate to that. It is often difficult for me to make the small talk that seems so necessary in our society, and yet I thrive on deep connection with others. The two women met because of th ...more

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