Kelly McMasters, "The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays"
English | ISBN: 0393541053 | 2023 | 304 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 0393541053 | 2023 | 304 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
A memoir in intimate essays navigating marriage and motherhood, art and ambition, grief and nostalgia, and the elusive concept of home.
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 marriage. But soon, she was quietly plotting her escape.
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