I enjoyed the exploration of friendship here. A heart-wrenching telling of the author’s friendship with Ken. I was holding out for this to be gay and it never did which is sad but I can’t knock the book for that. 

Writing was funny and poignant. I underlined and saved several quotes. 

“Even then, they understood that American life is unbounded promise and hypocrisy, faith and greed, new spectrums of joy and self-doubt, freedom enabled by enslavement. All of these things at once.”

“Friendship is about the willingness to know, rather than be known.”

“You draw on your students’ energies, and you learn just as much as you teach”

“I hadn’t known rolling a joint for someone else could communicate such compassion and deep care”