Virtual Premiere - Meet Kelly McMasters - Author of "The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays"

In case you missed it, the "Meet Kelly McMasters - Author of 'The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays' is now available on the Library's YouTube page.

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Port Washington’s own Kelly McMasters is an accomplished essayist, bestselling author and Hofstra professor who discusses her new book, "The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays." In these essays McMasters writes about navigating marriage and motherhood, art and ambition, grief and nostalgia, and the elusive concept of home. Described by author Joanna Rakoff as “a profound and beautiful book.… Never have I encountered a memoir that explores motherhood and marriage with such warmth, intimacy, and wisdom. This is a book that will forever change the way you see your world―and yourself.” 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." (Sponsored by the Friends of the Library)