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Hello and welcome to Gap Fest Reads for April 2022. I'm David Plott's of CityCast. I'm

here in Washington, D.C. In love by Amy Bloom recounts the death by suicide of Amy's

husband Brian Amici following his diagnosis with Alzheimer's disease. The book is a detailed

account, very detailed account of how Amy and Brian struggled to find a way for him to

take his own life and finally located the one place in the world that would help them,

which is a Swiss organization called Dignitas. It sounds grib. It is not in love. It's a

beautiful book. It's a sad book. It's also a really funny and delightful book, which

I hope we will convey today. Truly, I tore through in love not just for personal reasons

that I'll get into, but because it's paced kind of like a thriller, but also reads like

a comedy and it has an enormous heart. So, Amy Bloom, I'm so happy to be joined by you

from Connecticut. Welcome to Gap Fest Reads. Thank you. I'm happy to be here.

And before I get to in love, I want to remind our listeners that Amy is also a spectacular

writer in all kinds of forms and essay and novel and short stories. We've talked, both

Emily Bazel and I have talked on the Gap Fest about a way, her novel, which is one of

our very favorite books, both Emily and mine, very different flavor than this. So, Amy,

who was Brian Amichi? Why did you marry him?

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