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My Best Friend's Funeral

A Memoir

by Roger W. Thompson

The Patheos Book Club features "My Best Friend's Funeral: A Memoir" by Roger W. Thompson, a meditation on the life and premature death of his best friend and business partner, Tim Garrety. | read more»

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With unrestrained honesty and a punk-rock soundtrack, My Best Friend's Funeral is a memoir of friendship, doubt, surfing, and the complex relationships between fathers and sons. | read more »

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"Ten years after my best friend’s funeral he is still shaping my life. He’s shaping it from the path he helped to put me on. And he’s shaping it through the lessons learned from our friendship. As a result, I am motivated daily to be that friend to others.” | read more »

Praise for My Best Friend's Funeral

"Thompson gives a poignant reminder that our stories shape us, and at the center of every story is the need for relationship." — Pastor Chris Seay | read more »

My Best Friend's Funeral: Read an Excerpt

"I had been trying to write a eulogy that got to the secret of what really matters in the end. Of what could possibly make sense of this senselessness called life. It turns out the answer is a path we all know but have allowed the dandelions and weeds to hide from us." | read more »

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