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In Let's Take the GOOD WAY Home, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gail Caldwell offers a robust and moving memoir about her coming-of-age in mid-life and her outstanding companionship with Caroline Knapp, the author of Drinking: A Love Tale. In her youthful years, Caldwell described herself by rebellion and freedom, a interest for catalogs, and an aversion to intimacy and a distrust of others. Then, while living in Cambridge in her early 40s, Caldwell used a rambunctious puppy named Clementine. Using one of these bucolic walks, she satisfied Caroline and her dog, Lucille, and both women's lives improved forever. Though they are more unique of alike, these two fiercely private, indie women quickly relax into a companionship more serious than either of these expected, a companionship that will prosper on their distributed secrets, including parallel struggles with alcoholism and loneliness. They increase increasingly inseparable until, in 2003, Caroline is identified as having Level IV lung cancer. In her personal superb prose, Caldwell mines the deepest degrees of devotion and grief in this smart and affecting consideration about losing her best friend. Let's Take the GOOD WAY Home is also a celebration of life and everything the little moments worthwhile cherishing - and affirms why Gail Caldwell is rightly praised as one of the bravest & most genuine literary voices.
