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Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist and a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has interviewed more than a dozen women and men in states of major change, and she paints their portraits with sympathy and insight: a gay man who finds home and wholeness after coming out; a sixteen-year-old boy forced to leave Iran in the midst of the violent civil war; a Catholic priest who leaves the church he has always been devoted to, he life he has loved, and the work that has been deeply fulfilling; an anthropologist who carefully stages her departure from the "field" after four years of research; and many more. Too often, Lawrence-Lightfoot believes, we exalt new beginnings at the expense of learning from our goodbyes. "Exit" finds wisdom and perspective in the possibility of moving on and marks the start of a new conversation, to help us discover how we might make our exits with purpose and dignity.

Product Overview
ISBN 9780374151195
Categories Group 1, MIXnMATCH, New Arrivals, Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction: Personal Development, Reference
Author(s) Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Pages 720
Format Hardcover
Dimensions 22.9cm x 2.5cm x 15.2cm
Weight 0.46 kg