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'It makes explicit an undercurrent of incipient loss that’s implicit in any story about Youth. I like that the story respects the limits of friendship and the powers of an expensive dress, and elevates the value of being game and of frank, interesting conversation. '

lovely exerpt from a book review on 'Rules of Civility'

-It’s almost as if nobody wants to admit that they might not be prepared to do the work it takes to love somebody. And it can be laborious. To be intimate with someone who is flawed (which is the standard) requires us to expose our own flaws. We don’t talk about the heavy responsibility of that. We don’t talk about how we’re too lazy or too cowardly sometimes. We instead accuse love of being elusive. It isn’t. It is omnipresent. It asks us to be better people. And sometimes we flat out refuse.