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Winston-Salem Journal – January 2, 2005 -- Too
close a connection shatters woman's seemingly perfect world --
EARLY LEAVING. By Judy Goldman. William Morrow. 293 pages. $23.95.
-- By Anne Barnhill -- Every mother should read North Carolina
writer Judy Goldman's new novel, Early Leaving. Set in Charlotte,
this tale is a nightmare-come-true, a riveting story of how the best
paternal intentions can go horribly, horribly awry. The story begins
the night before Kathryn Smallwood's son, Early, is to be sentenced
for shooting a young black man...
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Creative Loafing - Charlotte - October 20, 2004 --
Mistakes Were Made --
Goldman gleans insights from family tragedy -- By Mary Kratt -- From
the very first page, you know what's coming -- a murder -- but that's all
you know. The how and critical why hide in novelist Judy Goldman's lively
imagination. Murder's not supposed to happen to people like these. People
like you or your best neighbor.
Goldman, in this second novel, traces what I would call "the education of
Kathryne Smallwood," a smart, liberal Myers Park wife and mother who learns
what no young woman, what no parent, wants to learn about her child...
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The Charlotte Observer - October 3, 2004 -- CAUGHT
IN THE TUG OF WAR OF DESIRE; NOVEL EXPLORES HOW PARENTS' NEEDS DRIVE
SON TO TRAGEDY -- By Jean Blish Siers
EARLY LEAVING by Judy Goldman. William Morrow. 304 pages. $24.95. --
Judy Goldman's "Early Leaving" opens in June 1987 with a fictitious
article from the Charlotte Observer recounting the shocking murder
of one teenage boy by another. That the victim is black and the
killer the white son of Myers Park elite sets the tone for this
page-turning second novel by the Charlottean, a longtime poet.
Goldman's is a story of class distinctions, race relations, family
ties...
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer -- September 28,
2004 -- "Early Leaving" by Judy Goldman (William Morrow, 293
pages, $24.95) -- Haunting questions of parenthood ripple through
the pages of this thoughtful second novel, which focuses on a
"perfect son" from a Charlotte, N.C., prep school who is arrested in
the murder of a black teenager. Goldman, a poet before she became a
novelist, focuses on the boy's mother, who has devoted all her
energies to being a wife and mother, only to discover that it is no
guarantee of what is to come...
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Associated Press (Carolina Newspapers) - September 23, 2004 -- Author
turns grief into inspiration -- By Sula Pettibon -The Herald --
An Interview with Judy Goldman -- Novelist Judy Goldman took
her grief from a Rock Hill murder and turned it into a book that
explores a mother's love, a failed marriage and the resiliency of
family. Told in the voice of character Kathryne Smallwood, the
novel, "Early Leaving," starts the night before her only child is
sentenced for killing another boy in a drug deal that went bad. The
story asks: Can a mother love her child too much? Goldman says
yes...
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Booklist - September 1, 2004 -- Goldman, Judy -- Early
Leaving -- Increasing incidents of school killings and growing
numbers of adolescent murderers are creating a new fiction genre:
the introspective probe into possible societal and familial causes.
Goldman's second resonant novel dissects one seemingly perfect
family: father, Peter, a successful attorney; mother and narrator
Kathryne, a movie reviewer; and their son, Early, valedictorian of
his prestigious private school, who is arrested for murder the
morning after graduation. Kathryne begins to scrutinize how she and
Peter erred along the way. Was it her fault for being the spoiling
parent? Or was Peter the culprit...
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Library Journal Reviews -- August 15, 2004 Sunday
-- Early Leaving, Goldman, Judy -- Morrow. Oct. 2004. c.304p. ISBN
0-06-059458-6. $24.95 -- Second-wave
feminism seems to have bypassed Kathryne Smallwood. Despite working as a
film critic, her life revolves around her son, Early, and her husband,
Peter. To outsiders looking in, the Smallwoods appear the epitome of white,
upper-class privilege, complete with a huge house, black maid, multiple
cars, and the latest gadgets. But - surprise! - things are not as rosy as
they seem...
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