A New York Times Bestseller What happens when the person who is your family is someone you aren't bound to by blood? . . . when the person you promise to love and to honor for the rest of your life is not your lover, but your best friend? Ann Patchett's startlingly intimate first work of nonfiction tells the story of her friendship with writer Lucy Grealy, shining a fresh and revealing light on the world of women's friendships and showing us what it means to stand together.
