This collection of letters chronicles a 35-year-long friendship between poet Agosín and journalist Sepúlveda, who were both exiled to the United States at the start of General Pinochet’s dictatorship in 1973. The eloquent letters speak movingly about the trials and tribulations of their adolescence in Chile and about their experience of exile. One of the most gripping parts of the memoir is their writing of the terror and turmoil of Chileans during Pinochet’s overthrow of Allende.