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    Now We Are Five

    David Sedaris wrote a touching article in The New Yorker about his first family vacation after his youngest sister committed suicide last spring. I’ve still only read one of his books, but the few columns I’ve read of his have convinced me that I need to read more. “Why do you think she did it?” I asked as we stepped back into the sunlight. For that’s all any of us were thinking, had been thinking since we got the news. Mustn’t Tiffany have hoped that whatever pills she’d taken wouldn’t be strong enough, and that her failed attempt would lead her back into our fold? How could anyone purposefully leave…

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    A Long Way Down

    A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby Published: 2005 Years ago I read How to be Good and really enjoyed it. I wasn’t enamoured enough to run out and immediately to buy his entire bibliography, but I did mean to eventually get back to him. Better late than never, I figure. I’m extremely glad I finally did, because I ended up loving this. The premise is simple but genius: four strangers climb to the top of an apartment building in London on New Years Eve with the intention of jumping to their deaths, but when they find each other up there it just kills the whole mood. After some discussion,…