"An affecting collection of candid, heartfelt letters that stands as a testimony to the sustenance of friendship in frightening times." -- KIRKUS REVIEWS "This epistolary exchange, which becomes a friendship, and then a fierce and loving sistership, reminds us that solidarity, by which maybe I really mean love , emerges in conversation--in listening, in asking, in sharing, in wondering, in sorrowing, in raging, in attempting, in dreaming . In dreaming together, with each other, and for each other. This takes practice, and it takes care. Pam Houston and Amy Irvine's Air Mail is evidence of that practice. It is evidence, and a seed, of that care." --ROSS GAY, author of The Book of Delights " Air Mail is the record of an epistolary friendship forged in a time of political peril, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. These letters are pure outpourings of deep thought and daily life.

Houston and Irvine reveal the ferocity of women who have made their lives in the wilderness and by the pen, the depths of wisdom hard-won, survival and what it cost, and all of this in a language where horse hooves can be heard thundering." --CAROLYN FORCHÉ, author of In the Lateness of the World "Pam Houston and Amy Irvine bring rivers and mountains and valleys onto the page and into your heart, reminding you how you are still part of a body that matters. They bring the beauty of animals and trees, the hum of motherhood drumming up from the very ground, the hard truths and difficult days of violence and virus woven through with what's left in us: fight, resilience, and astonishingly, song. This book is fierce love in motion." --LIDIA YUKNAVITCH, author of Verge "A sharp read with a natural literary chemistry . a perfectly timed book with all of the good questions included to read and discuss with others." -- THE UTAH REVIEW.