Jennifer G. (Impy) - reviewed on 5/30/2013 + 17 more book reviews

This is a beautifully written book. Its not just the story of two women and how they found friendship. Its about all friendships between women. From the beginning I found myself wanting to quote passages to various friends, to share the insights found in this book, to marvel at the sisterhood that can be found between strangers. Its also not just a book about how one person loses her friend-- its a book about grief...not how to survive it, but how we're not alone in how we must endure it. The familiarity of her loss, how it mirrored losses in my own life, the way she was able to put into words what I could only feel. This writer is a marvel and the story of her friendship and the loss of it is a gift.

I don't often savor the books I read, returning to re-read portions simply to more fully take in the beauty of the words, but this is a book I took my time with and sat, contemplating, the closed book in my hands, long after I finished.

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