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We've all wondered just how well we know our children
-- or if we paint them in our minds with broad strokes to see them
as the people we want them to be. EARLY LEAVING is a sensitive,
beautifully crafted story of one mother's abrupt awakening to the
truth that relationships are never what they seem to be -- not even
the ones in which we take part.
-- Jodi Picoult, author of My Sister and Plain
Truth |
Judy Goldman’s splendid new novel, EARLY LEAVING, is even better than
her accomplished first novel, The Slow Way Back. There is a great luminous
beauty to her writing that delights me. Few writers in America have ever
written with such passion and insight about the joys and great peril of
family life.
-- Pat Conroy author of Beach Music, The Prince of Tides,
and The Great Santini |
EARLY LEAVING is one of those novels you know you’ll remember forever
- the wisdom, the compassion, the absolutely brilliant portrait of
motherhood. Judy Goldman has painted every parent’s worst nightmare,
illuminating denial and everyday mistakes in a way that makes the reader
shudder with recognition. Moving, heartbreaking and ultimately a testament
to hope and survival, EARLY LEAVING is an extraordinary novel.
-- Jill McCorkle, author of Tending to Virginia, and The
Cheerleader |
Judy Goldman’s new book, EARLY LEAVING, is the story of a mother who
does everything almost right, with utterly dire consequences. Goldman’s
Kathryne Smallwood is at once disarmingly honest and deeply
self-deceptive. I felt she could be someone I know, if not someone I am; I
read with increasing horror as her life unraveled, and with relief as she
ultimately remade it. A totally absorbing novel from page one onward.
-- Josephine Humphreys, author of Nowhere Else on Earth, The
Fireman’s Fair, and Rich in Love |
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