In Old Friends, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder chronicles the year he spent with the residents of an old folks home called Linda Manor. With his usual easy story-telling, Kidder paints an intimate portrait of Lou Freed and Joe Torchio, strangers thrust together as roommates. They discover, as Kidder expresses it, a shared need to make meaning of the past, while dealing with the feeling of separateness that comes with age.