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Best Friends is a story of an unusual relationship between two
gifted women who share their lives in a correspondence that spans
three decades. It is autobiographical and yet it is also the memoir
of a brilliant woman with remarkable vitality, whose life is
continually interrupted and altered by bouts of schizophrenia.
Overarching moments of shared experiences and gossip, Best Friends
reveals a period of time, a now almost distant history, filled with
personal and social transformations that affected our lives. I was
deeply moved by the story of Beth's yearning to become a great
writer which perhaps has been realized in the pages of Best
Friends.
Clara at Sixty is the portrait of a woman who, after losing her
husband at an age when life begins to contract, returns to the
world of fumbling, emotionally confused relationships. The series
of mismatches are sometimes passionate and exciting, sometimes
funny, but ultimately sad. Still grieving and searching for her
identity, marginalized by a society that views women past their
prime as invisible, she knows she must come to terms with the loss
of her husband, the death of too many friends and the new reality
of "being an older woman." Her search to find meaning for the last
chapter of her life is universal. A struggle that begins at birth
and changes over time and circumstance. Clara, in the end,
discovers her way forward.
Defining what it means by "in sickness and in health," the author
takes her readers on an introspective journey that begins in
serenity and then hits an unexpected fork in the road where the
sign reads Cancer and the arrow points down. The book is dedicated
to the husband she lost, but it might have been written for all
loving wives who must follow the same path-- from the hospital
corridors, through the mapless mazes of grief, and then finally
into a new and resilient recovery. Anyone who's going through a
similar experience will not merely read, but will recognize, this
book. "Moving. Eloquent...Words that resonate powerfully on the
page..." -Kaity Tong, Broadcast Journalist, WPIX-TV, New York. .."A
wonderful memoir that poses the essential questions we all ask when
we lose the people we love." -Dee Ito, author of Without Estrogen
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