Among Friends : A Memoir of One Woman's Expectations Disappointments Regrets & Discoveries While Searching for Friends-for-life

Mary Lou Sanelli has called upon all her loves with this book. You will find her love of poetry, her love of language, her love of nature, her love of argument and discourse, and, above all, her love of friends. She craves the company of her friends. Her concern is, however, what this takes, and how one maintains the intensity that she so desires. For Sanelli, a friend isn't someone who will laugh at your jokes and tell you how nice you look. Oh, no. For her, a friend is someone who will tell you the joke is stupid and will inform you that you maybe could do something else with you hair. She examines, deeply and sincerely, what friendship means, and what it costs. She pulls no punches. Through contemplation and through personal anecdotes, both her own and others', Sanelli crawls through this morass of conflicts and emerges with a strong sense of love and a much clearer idea of closeness.