Importance of Friends

Rules for Visiting written by Jessica Frances Kane  is a lovely book about the importance of friends. The book beautifully opens with a snippet from Virginia Woolf's 1931 book Waves. 

Thus I visited each of my friends in turn, trying, with fumbling fingers, to prise open their locked caskets. I went from one to the other holding my sorrow -- no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this life -- for their inspection. Some people go to priests other to poetry; I to my friends. 

May Attaway, 40 year old, a university gardener, who over the years has grown more comfortable with plants than people, does just that. She goes on a hero's journey and visits one by one old friends she has not seen in years.  She seeks to finds herself, and along the way undergoes a life-altering transformation. 
One of my favorite parts of the book is the inclusion of descriptions and illustrations of trees. I recommend this sweet little book.