Non-Fiction Pick of the Week: Let's Take the Long Way Around

Let’s take the long way home: a memoir of friendship by Gail Caldwell

This memoir speaks to the depth that friendship can take: how a friend can be a partner in life as much as any romantic relationship. In this writing, the author takes a look at how her best friend has proven to be the key figure in her life, both while the friend was alive, and even after her tragic death. The memoir quickly moves through the life of the author – both prior to and after meeting her best friend, and gives us a view to the character development of both these women. The cement of the friendship is explored and an unexpected joy in the book is the added relationship between these women and their dogs. The heartbreaking end not only looks at how a friendship gets transformed through death, but also the enormous impact of the death of one’s pet companion.  

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