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This is an incredible memoir and story of a marriage, family and divorce. It's both devastating and hopeful. Maggie Smith is a phenomenal poet and storyteller who can articulate our feelings and longings in such a beautiful and true way - I love everything she writes!
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9 authors picked You Could Make This Place Beautiful as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
"[Smith]...reminds you that you can...survive deep loss, sink into life's deep beauty, and constantly, constantly make yourself new." -Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author
The bestselling poet and author of the "powerful" (People) and "luminous" (Newsweek) Keep Moving offers a lush and heartrending memoir exploring coming of age in your middle age.
"Life, like a poem, is a series of choices."
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. The book begins…