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...wasn’t really aware that I got on Kidder’s nerves sometimes until I read his book,” Farmer says. “I knew that I was running him ragged, and that our travel styles didn’t match at all, but I learned more about what he was thinking when I read his book, which was pretty recently...
Seeing Mountains Beyond Mountains for the first time—after the book was complete save for the fact-checking process—was a wrenching experience, Farmer says...
...first time around wasn’t all that pleasant,” Farmer writes in an e-mail. “I mean, I laughed, I cried, and all that. But it’s very strange to be the topic of a book (I’m not even dead yet! I’m 43 years old!). And although the facts seemed right, and he caught wonderful things that I’d forgotten in the mad swirl of everyday work, I didn’t savor the book on round one. It scared...
...Farmer says he remains uncomfortable with the book’s fairly extensive treatment of his personal life and history—chapters which, while uncovering no lurid scandals, hit close to home with accounts of his romantic life...
Nevertheless, Farmer says that a second reading convinced himself that Kidder had written “a beautiful story about Haiti...