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Gail Caldwell by Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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SUMMARY: “It’s an old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.” So begins this gorgeous memoir by Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell, a testament to the power of friendship, a story of how an extraordinary bond between two women can illuminate the loneliest, funniest, hardest moments in life, including the final and ultimate challenge.They met over their dogs. Both writers, Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp became best friends, talking about everything from their shared struggle with alcohol to their love of books. They walked the woods of New England and rowed on the Charles River, and the miles they logged on land and water became a measure of the interior ground they covered. From disparate backgrounds but with striking emotional similarities, these two private, fiercely self-reliant women created an attachment more profound than either of them could ever have foreseen. Rich with the joys of raising dogs and the rivalries of competitive sports, their friendship helped them define the ordinary moments of life as the ones worth cherishing. Then, several years into this remarkable connection, Knapp was diagnosed with termina

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
Publisher
Random House, Incorporated
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9781400067381
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Family & Relationships, Memoir, Computer Science
Rating
3.92 / 5 (7,978 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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