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Let's Take the Long Way Home
Gail Caldwell
A Memoir of Friendship
Random House
August 2010
On Sale: August 10, 2010
208 pages
ISBN: 1400067383
EAN: 9781400067381
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
“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, author of Drinking: A Love Story, became
best friends, talking about everything from their shared
history of a struggle with alcohol, to their relationships
with men and colleagues, 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. The 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
terminal lung cancer. With her signature exquisite prose, Caldwell mines the
deepest levels of devotion and grief in this moving memoir
about treasuring and losing a best friend. Let’s Take the
Long Way Home is a celebration of life and of the
transformations that come from intimate connection—and it
affirms, once again, why Gail Caldwell is recognized as one
of our bravest and most honest literary voices.
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