Snap #4 – “Let’s Take The Long Way Home”
Pick up this book. Snap to it. Trust me here. Written by Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell, this short (188 pages) memoir about a friendship between two women, is read-a-licious.
My friend, Ardyth, absorbed it in one sitting as an E-book. My paperback copy is dog-eared and tattered with a rippled-page affect that suggests “moisture”. On the inside cover is handwritten its own friendship journey:
- This Book orginated in New York with Terry.
- Then, Jane of Aspen, who read it at the Pool (thus the wrinkled pages).
- On to Gretchen and Mary R. and Linda in Aspen.
- Now, in my hands, in Nevada.
- I hope to pass it on to my neighbor, Michelle.
The beauty of this book is that we all read it so quickly, it can travel rapidly!
I would love to be the next recipient!
I finished the book at 1:00 this morning. I could not put it down. I had read Caroline Knapp’s “Drinking: A Love Story” several years ago. The depth of their friendship was truly amazing. I am purchasing this book for my library.
I may read Knapp’s story also. In hindsight, it might be too, too sad to read.