Let’s Take The Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship – Non-Fiction by Gail Caldwell. Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp (author of Drinking: A Love Story) became best friends after meeting over dogs. “If you love dogs and women....this is the book for you.” “It says a lot that Gail Caldwell’s ferociously anguished chronicle of her best friend’s terminal cancer, that it manages to be, among many other things, a properly intelligent examination of the way in which dogs can help heal our past, enhance and challenge our knowledge of ourselves, even shed light on the mysterious workings of the human soul. If female friendship is the beating heart of this book, then a bond with a dog is the vein of pure tenderness that runs through its pages. You feel that the women’s friendship would never have existed in quite the same way without this crucial, balancing canine element."
