Unfinished Business, Frish Brandt
Unfinished Business, Frish Brandt
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Unfinished Business
Writing the 5 Essential Letters of Your Life

Author: Frish Brandt

Narrator: Suehyla El-Attar Young, Frish Brandt

Unabridged: TBD

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/27/2026


Synopsis

An inspiring and eminently useful guide to the art of letter writing, including prompts and exercises to help deepen our most important connections and heal old wounds, by a beloved “letter midwife.”

“A pragmatic, empathetic, urgent call to stop avoiding the hardest conversations and start enjoying the world beyond hurt and regret . . . A true service to readers.”—Kelly Corrigan, New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me More and The Middle Place

We all have “unfinished business”: thank-you notes we meant to write, goodbyes we never spoke, apologies we haven’t managed to give. Here to help us put those words on paper, letter midwife Frish Brandt provides singular guidance on how to write the five fundamental missives that underscore the meaning of our lives: Thank you, I’m sorry, I miss you, I love you, and Goodbye.

With real-world examples from her experience of teaching in universities, workshops, and individual sessions around the country, Brandt weaves practical writing prompts with gentle reflections on grief, connection, forgiveness, and closure, offering the tools—and the courage—to help you write what you have long held inside. At once an invitation, a guidebook, and an ode to the power of the written word, Unfinished Business will help deepen your most important connections and heal old wounds. It is a book to read, to write alongside, and to return to again and again.

About The Author

Frish Brandt teaches essential letter writing at Stanford University’s School of Medicine and to individuals and institutions around the country, including museums, universities, hospitals, and caregiving associations. She worked in the arts for more than four decades before becoming a full-time Letter Midwife. She lives and writes in San Francisco.


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“A pragmatic, empathetic, urgent call to stop avoiding the hardest conversations and start enjoying the world beyond hurt and regret . . . A true service to readers.”—Kelly Corrigan, New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me More and The Middle Place

“Frish Brandt’s work is an extraordinary tool to help heal, connect, and transform your relationships. Her work is altogether a gorgeous phenomenon, and I’ve seen it work wonders time and again.”—Dr. BJ Miller, director of the Center for Living and Dying and co-author of A Beginner’s Guide to the End

“Even the best-designed and well-lived life has some unfinished business. Kindly, compassionately, and with unexpected ease, Brandt reveals how to find and finish your essential letter. Don’t miss it.”—Dave Evans, co-founder of Stanford Life Design Lab and New York Times bestselling co-author of Designing Your Life

“Frish Brandt evokes relief, wonder, and immense gratitude in all who encounter her letter writing practice. Unfinished Business is a book for every one of us.”—Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank and The House of Lincoln

“This is a book of intimacy. This is a book of radical reflection. Frish Brandt is a magical presence in the world.”—Terry Tempest Williams, author of The Glorians and When Women Were Birds

“This book is an entryway into healing. By helping us find the words to articulate the enormity of the heart, this important writer and thinker has produced a primer that’s essential to our desire to communicate and love.”—Hilton Als, Pulitzer Prize–winning staff writer and theater critic for The New Yorker

“This readable and reflective self-help guide . . . [offers] practical tips, prompts, and models amply supported by sample letters and the stories that prompted their creation. She shares the meaningful impact these letters have had on people’s lives, including occasional unexpected rippling effects, which adds further weight to her exhortations to get writing—before it’s too late.”Booklist