RaveThe Washington Post\"The Best Minds is Rosen’s masterful attempt to reconcile what happened to Michael, Carrie and their families and friends, and how — or if — their story might have gone another direction. More than half a century later, Rosen looks squarely at his friendship and the ways in which a culture that reveres intellectual achievement can blind itself to the limitations of that same person’s mind ... Rosen asks uncomfortable but crucial questions, some of them unanswerable, all of them compelling, and the result is an incisive but intimate tour de force that’s as much about Michael’s story as it is about the stories we tell as a culture — what we value, what we see, and what we do our best not to see even when it’s right in front of us.\
Julie Yip-Williams
RaveThe New York Times Book Review\"... eloquent, gutting and at times disarmingly funny ... Yip-Williams writes with such vibrancy and electricity even as she is dying ... This memoir is so many things — a triumphant tale of a blind immigrant, a remarkable philosophical treatise and a call to arms to pay attention to the limited time we have on this earth. But at its core, it’s an exquisitely moving portrait of the daily stuff of life ... It would be nearly impossible to read this book and not take [Yip-Williams\'s] exhortation seriously.\
Courtney Jung
PositiveThe New York TimesAt times, Jung’s arguments get bogged down by repetition, but her keen analyses and wry humor keep the reader engaged.
