A review by bribeatris
Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship by Sarah Ruhl, Max Ritvo

5.0

GOD. It’s been maybe a week since I finished this and still don’t know how to review it. I got it at the strand for a $1 and was still hesitant on it and thought it would be cliche somehow. Then I read it. And couldn’t put it down. It is an exchange of emails from a professor and her student who has cancer. She weaves in their texts and phone call conversations and really pulls the context of the letters or emails all together. It has inspired and stayed with me every day since reading it. And I keep wanting to reach for it to reread it instead of starting something new. Also when I reached to a certain page (I won’t spoil it) I literally slammed the book shut and started BAWLING my eyes out. I have cried from books before but nothing like this. It hit me. I cried for probably 10 minutes. Then reread the page and cried again and finished the book with tears in my eyes spilling onto the pages.

Just phenomenal. I can’t even. The words don’t measure up to how much this book means to me.