Truth and Beauty: A Friendship

The author of Bel Canto — winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Orange Prize and long-running New York Times bestseller — turns to nonfiction in a moving chronicle of her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy.

What happens when the person who is your family is someone you aren't bound to by blood? What happens when that person is not your lover, but your best friend? In her frank and startlingly intimate first work …