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A review by kimdokjaa
First Love: Essays on Friendship by Lilly Dancyger
4.0
one of the only things i love nearly as much as being with my friends is examining our love and finding new facets of it to cherish, and i think lilly dancyger did that beautifully in this collection
i struggle with reviewing memoirs, especially one this personal, and hesitate to speak as if the contents were a story and not the author's lived love and loss. so i will keep this short, and say that i loved dancyger’s examination on the love, friendship, mothering, and community intrinsic to sisterhood
i particularly enjoyed the passages on the lushly artistic paris of nin that has never truly been a place, but rather a way of living and seeing the world, and on mothering, how "the desire for a baby is often, at least partly, the desire to hold a small version of the person you love most, to mother them from the beginning."
i struggle with reviewing memoirs, especially one this personal, and hesitate to speak as if the contents were a story and not the author's lived love and loss. so i will keep this short, and say that i loved dancyger’s examination on the love, friendship, mothering, and community intrinsic to sisterhood
i particularly enjoyed the passages on the lushly artistic paris of nin that has never truly been a place, but rather a way of living and seeing the world, and on mothering, how "the desire for a baby is often, at least partly, the desire to hold a small version of the person you love most, to mother them from the beginning."