Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

I value the subjects of this book and respect the thought and effort the author put into the project. I also appreciate that I'm walking away with a couple of very interesting and challenging questions of myself. However, the first third of the book was a total slog. The middle eventually drew me but it was hard work. It wasn't until the final third that it extracted any real interest in me, and it's fairly impressive that the author still managed to leave a genuine impression on me in such a small portion of the book. I think it would have been more interesting for the author to have edited all those letters, emails, notes, and texts from her friend and turn it into an actual book of poetry--while still offering their own explication of the text. I'd much rather read that version. Unfortunately, I likely won't recommend it to anyone.