The Leaving Season
Book description
Kelly McMasters found herself in her midthirties living her fantasy: she'd moved with her husband, a painter, from New York City to rural Pennsylvania, where their children roamed idyllic acres in rainboots and diapers. The pastoral landscape and the bookshop they opened were restorative at first, for her and her…
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1 author picked The Leaving Season as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Kelly’s book is one of the most honest, heartfelt accounts of how a relationship corrodes and deteriorates that I have ever encountered.
Having had a strikingly similar experience myself, I was pulled in by the story, and then I discovered her wonderful ability to interrogate the meanings of her experiences, to really consider herself as a character, and to wrestle with the complicated ethics of writing about family.
She has an anthropologist’s eye for discerning the nuanced dynamics of the cultures she immerses herself in, a novelist’s sense of story, and an essayist’s eagerness to ask difficult questions of self-implicating…
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