"Caldwell
has managed to do the inexpressible in this quiet, fierce work: create a
memorable offering of love to her best friend, Caroline Knapp, the
writer who died of lung cancer at age 42 in 2002. Caldwell is
unflinching in depicting her friend's last days, although her own grief
nearly undid her; she writes of this desolating time with tremendously
moving grace" Publisher’s Weekly & Pick of the Week
"Out
of a great loss, Gail Caldwell has fashioned a great gift: an intimate
memoir that somehow contains everything that really matters about life.
Lucid, elegant, passionate, wise, and enormously moving—a book of rare
and memorable beauty." Joan Wickersham, author of The Suicide Index
Gail Caldwell is the former chief book critic for The Boston Globe,
where she was a staff writer and critic for more than twenty years. In
2001, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. She is also the
author of A Strong West Wind, a memoir of her native Texas. Caldwell lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Gail Caldwell is the former chief book critic for The Boston Globe,
where she was a staff writer and critic for more than twenty years. In
2001, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. She is also the
author of A Strong West Wind, a memoir of her native Texas. Caldwell lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
