Dear Friend, From My Life I Write To You In Your Life J. W. von Goethe (author) to the brave mother-to-be undergoing

to the brave mother-to-be undergoing fetal spinal cord surgery

as if wary of mistake

Dante relates his mystical interpretation of the heavens

At once humorous and melancholic

Dear Friend, From My Life I Write To You In Your Life J. W. von Goethe (author) to the brave mother-to-be undergoingA luminous memoir from the award winning author of The Vagrants and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers 'What a long way it is from one life to another. Yet why write if not for that distance?' Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is a memoir of a life lived with books. Written over two years while the author battled suicidal depression, Dear Friend is a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living. Li