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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...
...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...
...It’s not easy to be written about,” Kidder says. “I can only imagine what it’s like to open up a book and it?...
Nevertheless, Farmer says that a second reading convinced himself that Kidder had written “a beautiful story about Haiti...
...think Tracy Kidder is one of the best writers out there,” he says. “I love the way he writes, his spare prose, his humor, his humility, his ability to refer back to previous events or expressions…I can’t say that I’ve ever read a better book about those topics, or seen a better written book...