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Starred Review in Publisher's Weekly:

What's the saying? Never discuss sex, God or politics if you want to keep your friends? In this particular case, the questions of faith and God are actually what brought Bebergal and Korb together, initially through a correspondence related to their writings for various online magazines. Faith was not something either particularly discussed with their other friends, even though both hold advanced degrees in religion. Like a conversation that continues all night into the early light of dawn, this collection of stories is filled with the deepest of personal feelings and confessions as well as the mundane details of everyday life. The format - the telling of a story by one, followed by a reflective epilogue by the other - highlights not only the seamlessness of their dialogue, but the depth of their friendship and understanding of each other. No topic is taboo; amid their questioning of faith and God come tales of addiction, neuroses and ineptitude. These thirty-somethings are as diverse as their upbringings, yet between them they represent a little bit of all of us in this thoughtful, engaging debate about the virtues of faith and the existence of God. (Nov.)

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Recommended Reading on Nextbook:

Bebergal and Korb are anomalies in their indie-rock, progressive, literary circles: one Jewish, the other Catholic, the two share belief in God. As their friendship builds, Bebergal and Korb "come out" to each other about their beliefs, and find in one another unlikely religious camaraderie. Revealing themselves to each other in stories of their pasts, their beliefs, their tragedies and triumphs, Bebergal and Korb discover that for them, "faith is not...a private matter at all...faith is nothing if not shared."

In ten essays, the pair retell some of those stories, taking turns writing and commenting. Each essay features a coda by the other, "the literary equivalent of finishing each others sentences." Written with naked vulnerability, this is the rare memoir which seems quietly revelatory, rather than dramatically performed.

http://nextbook.org/cultural/book.html?bookid=1641