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...Farmer, too, has had his share of discomfort in connection with Kidder’s book—some of which showed through at a recent event the two held together at Longfellow Hall, sponsored by Harvard Book Store...
...between Kidder’s readings of excerpts from Mountains Beyond Mountains, Farmer—always smiling—tossed barbs the author’s way, repeatedly mocking Kidder’s educational pedigree of Andover and Harvard. Farmer also wryly announced plans to retaliate by publishing his own multi-volume version of the months he and Kidder spent together, including such installments as Cry, the Beloved Tracy. Playing on the titles of Kidder’s most laurelled works, he joked that he would publish more books about Haiti: Hut for Kidder’s House and Slum...
Still, the conflict has never crossed into outright hostility; Farmer echoes Kidder in calling their relationship throughout the research and writing process as close. “He’d be the first to admit, I suspect, that I’m a friendly person and you don’t hang around with someone for years and not become friends,” Farmer says. “Particularly if you’re talking a lot and living through dramatic experiences together...
...none of this, Farmer says, could change the fundamental oddness of having a prominent author scrutinize his life while he was still living...
...Farmer says he knew little of the internal dissension Kidder felt until after the research was over—and indeed, he says that several of the arguments and verbal fights Kidder narrates had gone unrecognized by him at the time...