“Pam Houston and Amy Irvine bring rivers and mountains and valleys onto the page and into your heart, reminding you how you are still part of a body that matters. ROSS GAY, author of The Book of Delights It is evidence, and a seed, of that care.” Pam Houston and Amy Irvine’s Air Mail is evidence of that practice. In dreaming together, with each other, and for each other. “This epistolary exchange, which becomes a friendship, and then a fierce and loving sistership, reminds us that solidarity, by which maybe I really mean love, emerges in conversation-in listening, in asking, in sharing, in wondering, in sorrowing, in raging, in attempting, in dreaming. CAROLYN FORCHÉ, author of In the Lateness of the World Houston and Irvine reveal the ferocity of women who have made their lives in the wilderness and by the pen, the depths of wisdom hard-won, survival and what it cost, and all of this in a language where horse hooves can be heard thundering.” These letters are pure outpourings of deep thought and daily life. “ Air Mail is the record of an epistolary friendship forged in a time of political peril, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. “An affecting collection of candid, heartfelt letters that stands as a testimony to the sustenance of friendship in frightening times.”
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