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THE BOOK
IS HERE

UNFINISHED BUSINESS: Writing the 5 Essential Letters of Your Life by Frish Brandt is a “How To-Why To-When To” guide to writing letters of love, sadness, meaning, and purpose. The book is an invitation to make personal connections that may have been misplaced, joyfully rediscovered, or perhaps sorrowfully lost or abandoned. It also arrives at a moment that feels like a “correspondence renaissance” in literature, popular culture and media that fills a gap in the available literature of letter writing and our most significant relationships.

Preorder available. Book release set for October 27th. Order yours from a link below or visit your local independent bookstore.​

Unfinished Business is 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 has tapped into a secret vein of gold lurking in every human heart. 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. Com­pleting your letter is life-changing—and it awaits you in these pages. Don’t miss it.

Dave Evans, New York Times bestselling author of Designing Your Life, Cofounder of Stanford Life Design Lab

This is an antidote to despair and a practice of peace, a book of intimacy and radical reflection. Frish Brandt is a magical presence in the world.

Terry Tempest Williams, author of The Glorians and When Women Were Birds

Unfinished Business offers a way to come safely closer to the unfathomable, bringing light to emptiness and love to fear. 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. B.J Miller, Director of the Center for Living and Dying, co-author of A Beginners Guide to the End

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 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, Prize-winning staff writer and theater critic for The New Yorker

Upcoming events

October 29 at 5:30 pm at Book Passage, San Francisco Ferry Building

Frish Brandt in conversation with Tony Bravo, SF Chronicle Cultural Columnist. RSVP here.

November 3 at 7:00 pm at Books Inc., Palo Alto

Frish Brandt in conversation with anthropologist and author Roberta Katz. RSVP here.

November 12 at TBD at END WELL CONFERENCE, Skirball Center, Los Angeles

Frish Brandt with closing comments. Tickets available here.

November 15 at 9:30am at The Forum at Grace Cathedral, Gersham Hall, San Francisco

In conversation with Dean Malcolm Clemons Young. RSVP here.

November 17 at The Image Centre Toronto, Canada

In honor of the exhibition Richard Avedon: Immortal, Frish Brandt in conversation with Dr. Samir Sinha. More details to come.

December 5, 2026 in the mid afternoon at Tumbleweed Found, Santa Cruz

Details to come.

December 7 at 6:30pm at Christopher's Books, San Francisco

Letter writing workshop, in honor of National Letter Writing Day. RSVP by contacting Christopher's Books.

December 9th at 6:30pm at the San Francisco Public Library

An evening event and letter writing activity. Details to come.

December 10th at 6:00pm at Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco

Join for book signing, reading, conversation and sips.

January 13, 2027 at 6:00pm at Town Hall Seattle, Washington

Known Wishes: Legacy, Meaning and Memories.

January 23, 2027 at 10:00am for an online event

Writing Medicine with Laurel Braitman. Details through Writing Medicine.

More events coming up in 2027

  • Chicago — January 28-29 Nurses Conference

  • Seattle — April 7 Town Hall / Northwest Center for Creative Aging

  • New York City — TBD

  • Santa Fe — TBD

  • Virginia — TBD

  • And more

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