In-Person Author Event: The Leaving Season by Kelly McMasters

Please join us for an in-person reading from The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays by Kelly McMasters. Kelly will be joined in conversation by author Gina Frangello. 

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.

Kelly McMasters is an essayist, professor, and a former bookshop owner living in New York. She is the author of The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays and co-editor of the national bestselling anthology Wanting: Women Writing About Desire.

Gina Frangello's fifth book, the memoir Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason (Counterpoint), has been selected as a New York Times Editor's Choice, recevied starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Book Page, and was included on numerous "Best of 2021" lists including Lithub, BookPage, and The Chicago Review of Books.

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