A Boston Globe book review, titled Reflecting on human spirit amid life’ losses
What attracted me to this was this paragraph by the reviewer:
What makes these essays so powerful is that Lynch is unafraid to admit to his own frailties and failures – his divorce, his struggle with liquor. And while we find it easy to deny and deceive, it is, in the end, the truth that offers the best hope for redemption. ”The truth, even when it hurts, has a healing in it, better than fiction or fantasy,” Lynch notes.
Sounds like a candidate for the Joe Guru section.