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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, DC. 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 struggle 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 grim. 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 tour 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

Basel 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 flavors than this. So, Amy, who was

Brian Amichi? Why did you marry him?

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