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

By Gail Caldwell

ISBN-10: 1400067383

ISBN-13: 9781400067381

“It’s an outdated, outdated tale: I had a pal and we shared every thing, after which she died and so we shared that, too.”
 
So starts off this beautiful memoir by means of Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell, a testomony to the ability of friendship, a narrative of ways a unprecedented bond among ladies can light up the loneliest, funniest, toughest moments in existence, together with the ultimate and supreme challenge.

They met over their canine. either writers, Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp, writer of Drinking: A Love Story, grew to become top pals, conversing approximately every little thing from their shared background of a fight with alcohol, to their relationships with males and associates, to their love of books. They walked the woods of latest England and rowed at the Charles River, and the miles they logged on land and water grew to become a degree of the inner floor they lined. From disparate backgrounds yet with notable emotional similarities, those deepest, fiercely self-reliant ladies created an attachment extra profound than both of them may well ever have foreseen. 

The friendship helped them outline the standard moments of lifestyles because the ones worthy cherishing. Then, a number of years into this amazing connection, Knapp used to be clinically determined with terminal lung cancer.

With her signature beautiful prose, Caldwell mines the inner most degrees of devotion and grief during this relocating memoir approximately treasuring and wasting a ally. Let’s Take the good way Home is a party of existence and of the adjustments that come from intimate connection—and it affirms, once more, why Gail Caldwell is famous as one in every of our bravest and such a lot sincere literary voices.

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I had a number of old and solid friendships, male and female both, but these days most of the local ones belonged in the second circle of intimacy—the people you’d call when you were hit by a bus, but not necessarily if you’d merely sprained an ankle. ” I once asked my friend Louise, a writer who lived in Minnesota. “Oh God, no,” she said. ” The fact was that I had been weaned on intense and valiant friendships among women, thanks to the milieu in which I’d come of age in Texas. I was in my early twenties during the heyday of the antiwar movement and the rise of feminism in the 1970s, which in Austin were closely linked.

One ball, two gloves, equal joy in the throw and the return. Now I was in the field without her: one glove, no game. Grief is what tells you who you are alone. 1. I CAN STILL SEE HER STANDING ON THE SHORE, A towel around her neck and a post-workout cigarette in her hand—half Gidget and half splendid splinter, her rower’s arms in defiant contrast to the awful pink bathing suit she’d found somewhere. It was the summer of 1997, and Caroline and I had decided to swap sports: I would give her swimming lessons and she would teach me how to row.

I HAVE A PHOTOGRAPH from one of those summers at Chocorua, framing the backs of my dog and Caroline’s, Clementine and Lucille, who are silhouetted in the window seat and looking outside. It is the classic dog photo, capturing vigilance and loyalty: two tails resting side by side, two animals glued to their post. What I didn’t realize for years is that in the middle distance of the picture, through the window and out to the fields beyond, you can make out the smallest of figures—an outline of Caroline and me walking down the hill.

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