title: What Comes Next and How to Like It: A Memoir
author:  Abigail Thomas 
description: "What Comes Next and How to Like It is a beautifully felt, deeply moving memoir, the best work yet by a woman who has already done some of the best work in the field. It's about friendship, and the shocks friendship can endure when it's true and deep. It's about the rueful pleasures (not to mention the jarring pitfalls) of getting old. It's about enduring tragedy, sickness, and loss. Thomas speaks of these big things by scattering the ordinary jewelry of everyday life: loving dogs (even when they chew your most precious possessions), Googling old boyfriends, rescuing an orphan mouse, and trees that try to grow in the crack between boards. Small speaks for large here, in a calm voice that talks to the mind while it fills the heart. Abigail Thomas is the Emily Dickinson of memoirists, and so much of this book's wisdom is between the lines and in the white spaces. It may only take you two days to read, but the impact will stay with you for a long, long time. Abigail Thomas fills memory with living breath." (Stephen King)<br /><br />"This may be the most honest book I've ever read, by one of the most beautiful writers I know-- dizzyingly truthful, often funny, lyrical, wise." (Anne Lamott)<br /><br />"I would follow Abigail Thomas on any journey she ever takes. The arrival of a new book from this master is always a cause for celebration, because I know right away that I'm about to learn something important about the art of writing and the art of living, both. I come to her books as though to a feast, and leave fulfilled and transformed." (Elizabeth Gilbert)<br /><br />"This episodic memoir is full of love and life. Readers will identify with the feelings and the people even as they realize how different they are, how wondrous." (Eloise Kinney <i>Booklist</i>)<br /><br />Bigheartedfrank and funny andunpretentious[Thomass] gratitude and amazement abound. (Catherine Newman <i>More</i>)<br /><br />A former book editor and memoirist's accountof the remarkable 35-year friendship that sustained her through the trials andtribulations of adult lifeA moving andeloquent memoir. (<i>Kirkus Reviews (starred review)</i>)<br /><br />Irreverent, wise, and boundlessly generous." (Elissa Schappell <i>Vanity Fair</i>)<br /><br />Infused with her signature sense of mordancy and wit For Thomas, the only option is to remain in the present, in the never-ending now.... <b>exquisite</b>. (David Ulin <i>Los Angeles Times</i>)<br /><br />Full of love, humor, anger and a certain amount of uncertainty. Although most of these passages are very short and read almost like journal entries, the overall picture Thomas conveys is that of the deep, soul-level relationships that exist between her and her family and with Chuck, connections that make all the highs and lows of life livable." (Lee E. Cart <i>Shelf Awareness</i>)<br /><br />A keenly observed memoir[Thomas] writes of the changes aging brings us all and of coping through love: of family, dogs, a well-turned phrase. <b>She is superb company</b>." (<i>People Magazine</i>)
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  SHE YIELDED
  
  And somehow one moment he was telling himself that he should let Abigail go,
  should step back, and the next moment he had pulled her straight up against
  his body and was kissing her so fiercely that he thought he might never
  breathe again. They were hot, scorching kisses; he was in a fever, he branded
  her mouth, her throat, her shoulder; he was desperate to take as much as he
  could in these few minutes.
  
  Her body softened, sank towards him; her face tilted upward. He found himself
  sitting on the wall; she had tumbled down into his arms, and he was pulling
  her dress off her shoulder, sliding his hand down the side of her breast. She
  was not going to stop him, Meyer realized, incredulous.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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