You’ll feel yourself considering your own life — the ups and the downs — believing that life is beautiful and it is hard, but always worth living. There were so many times I found myself chocking down tears or laughing at Jean’s raw and attentive view of the world. Read this book.
It was the lingering afterglow of a journalistic inquiry that had yielded open-hearted stories from ten people on a train — ten people whom I’d randomly chosen to interview on a long ride from St. Louis to Albuquerque and back again. I wanted to check in with somebody else — anybody else, to find out how people were feeling about their lives, their families, their jobs, their future, and the future of our nation in the summer of 2017.
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