SCARY CLOSE New York Times bestselling memoirist Donald Miller takes readers on hisyearlong journey to learn to abandon performance-based relationships and find real intimacy. After decades of failed relationships and painful drama, Donald Miller decided he™d had enough. Impressing people wasn™t helping him connect with anyone. He™d built a life of public isolation, yet he dreamed of meaningful relationships. So at forty years old he made a scary decision: to be himself no matter what it cost.  Scary Close is a book about the risk involved in choosing to impress fewer people and connect with more, about the freedom that comes when we stop acting and start loving. It is a story about knocking down old walls to create a healthy mind, a strong family, and a satisfying career. And it all feels like a conversation with the best kind of friend: smart, funny, true, important.  Scary Close is Donald Miller at his best.