From January 9, 2004 - This is such a wonderful, heartfelt, extraordinary book. I picked it up at 9:00 in the evening yesterday, expecting to read just a chapter or two. I couldn't set it down until I finished it at three in the morning, crying, of course, at the luminous quality of the work that I had just experienced. - - - January 26, 2006 - It is now over two years later and I must say that not a week goes by that I don't think about this book. The very end is heart wrenching and cathartic. It is not possible to recommend this book more highly.