the leaving season a memoir in essays kelly mcmasters

Kelly McMaster's memoir "The Leaving Season" is a master class in sensory details, creating crystal-clear settings, while also serving up a vivid emotional landscape. The book is a series of full-bodied essays which will appeal to essay readers, but it somehow also manages to read seamlessly like a straight-up memoir.

A memoir in intimate essays navigating marriage and motherhood, art and ambition, grief and nostalgia, and the elusive concept of home. In The Leaving Season, McMasters chronicles the heady rush of falling in love and carving out a life in the city, the slow dissolution of her relationship in an isolated farmhouse, and the complexities of making a new home for herself and her children as a ...

11 books71 followers. Kelly McMasters is an essayist, professor, mother, and former bookshop owner. She is the author of the forthcoming The Leaving Season: A Memoir-in-Essays (WW Norton, 2023) and co-editor of the forthcoming Wanting: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult, 2023). Her first book, Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town ...

Kelly McMasters is the author of the forthcoming The Leaving Season: A Memoir-in-Essays (WW Norton, 2023) and co-editor of the forthcoming Wanting: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult, 2023). Her first book, Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town, was listed as one of Oprah's top 5 summer memoirs and is the basis for the documentary ...

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.

Kelly McMaster's memoir "The Leaving Season" is a master class in sensory details, creating crystal-clear settings, while also serving up a vivid emotional landscape. The book is a series of full-bodied essays which will appeal to essay readers, but it somehow also manages to read seamlessly like a straight-up memoir.

"[Kelly] McMasters' writing shares some of its DNA with Leslie Jamison and Rebecca Solnit.… The Leaving Season is a candid, often wrenching account of a relationship's slow, inexorable crumbling and a survivor's attempt to climb from the ruin and build a new life. Kelly McMasters is a graceful, fluid writer, and though the subject ...

Kelly McMasters is the author of the forthcoming The Leaving Season: A Memoir-in-Essays (WW Norton, 2023) and co-editor of the forthcoming Wanting: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult, 2023). Her first book, Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town, was listed as one of Oprah's top 5 summer memoirs and is the basis for the documentary ...

Kelly McMasters is the author of the forthcoming The Leaving Season: A Memoir-in-Essays (WW Norton, 2023) and co-editor of the forthcoming Wanting: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult, 2023). Her first book, Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town, was listed as one of Oprah's top 5 summer memoirs and is the basis for the documentary ...

"One of the most beautifully written books I've ever read. Kelly McMasters is a literary giant."—Zibby Owens, Good Morning America A memoir in intimate essays navigating marriage and motherhood, art and ambition, grief and nostalgia, and the elusive concept of home., The Leaving Season, A Memoir, Kelly McMasters, 9781324076056

The Leaving Season is a candid, often wrenching account of a relationship's slow, inexorable crumbling and a survivor's attempt to climb from the ruin and build a new life. Kelly McMasters is a graceful, fluid writer, and though the subject matter of her memoir is anything but easy, the rewards of sharing her company on the page are undeniable ...

The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays Kelly McMasters. Norton, $16.99 trade paper (310p) ISBN 978-1-324-07605-6

Kelly McMasters. Kelly McMasters is an essayist, professor, mother, and former bookshop owner. She is the author of the forthcoming The Leaving Season: A Memoir-in-Essays (WW Norton, 2023) and co-editor of the forthcoming Wanting: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult, 2023). Her first book, Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town, was ...

THE LEAVING SEASON A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS. by Kelly McMasters ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 9, 2023. A frank, introspective memoir of divorce, creativity, and the sacrifices of motherhood. ... McMasters begins this poignant memoir in essays with an anecdote about how, when her children were young, she was obsessed with fire safety. She was so "focused on ...

In The Leaving Season, McMasters chronicles the heady rush of falling in love and carving out a life in the city, the slow dissolution of her relationship in an isolated farmhouse, and the complexities of making a new home for herself and her children as a single parent. She delves into the tricky and often devastating balance between seeing ...

Kelly McMasters is the author of the forthcoming The Leaving Season: A Memoir-in-Essays (WW Norton, 2023) and co-editor of the forthcoming Wanting: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult, 2023). Her first book, Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town, was listed as one of Oprah's top 5 summer memoirs and is the basis for the documentary ...

Kelly McMasters is the author of the forthcoming The Leaving Season: A Memoir-in-Essays (WW Norton, 2023) and co-editor of the forthcoming Wanting: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult, 2023). Her first book, Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town, was listed as one of Oprah's top 5 summer memoirs and is the basis for the documentary ...

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 mid-30s 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 Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays Kelly McMasters. 288 pages • first pub 2023 ISBN/UID : 9780393541052. Format: Hardcover ... grief and nostalgia, and the elusive concept of home.Kelly McMasters found herself in her mid-thirties living her fantasy: she'd moved with her husband, a painter, f... Read more. Community Reviews. Content ...

The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays by Kelly McMasters has an overall rating of Rave based on 6 book reviews. Features; New Books; Biggest New Books ... I believe this is true for Kelly McMasters — that in writing this vivid, searing memoir she's made a manageable shape out of what appear to be disparate disturbing events. As I read The ...

Kelly McMasters is the author of the forthcoming The Leaving Season: A Memoir-in-Essays (WW Norton, 2023) and co-editor of the forthcoming Wanting: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult, 2023).

Kelly McMasters is a professor, nationally bestselling author, and former bookshop owner living in New York. Along with The Leaving Season, she is the author of Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir of an Atomic Town, an Orion Book Award finalist and one of Oprah's Top 5 Summer Memoirs, and co-editor of Wanting: Women Writing About Desire and This is the Place: Women Writing about Home.