Touching and sometimes very funny this is a story of two best friends - supporting each other through good times and the tough times. This is the toughest time of all because Edi is in hospice and dying of cancer. Ash is determined to be there for Edi whether it is finding a lemon polenta cake or attempting to take Edi's advice on Ash's ping pong love life. I won't sugarcoat it - this is a sad story but there is a little bit of both women in all of us so even if you are fortunate enough never to have lost someone that close to you, you will still be able to laugh and cry right along with them. Once you begin reading you realize that this is not just a book about loss and the end of a life but a celebration of a life well lived and all the messiness in between. The story has all the wit and humor of Elizabeth McCracken's THE HERO OF THIS BOOK with the tenderness of Iris Rainer Dart's BEACHES or your favorite Nicholas Sparks novel. Beautifully told and stock up on tissue boxes. 4 1/2 stars
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