Naomi Fry’s Favorite Book

Being asked to name my favorite book of all time feels like way too much pressure (apologies to the asker, this newsletter’s editor). The older I get, the harder I find it to make definitive calls of this sort, since, by this point in my life, God bless, I’ve read a whole bunch of books, and have hated but also loved too many to recall. And so, any answer I’d give would be provisional, or incomplete, or mood dependent. That said, there is one book that I’ll never not be in the frame of mind to read, and maybe that’s one definition of “favorite,” so here goes.I first encountered Carrie Fisher’s “Postcards from the Edge” when I was fourteen, in 1990. The mass-market paperback that I picked up at University Book Store, in Seattle, which is the edition I still have, was published as a tie-in w