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The Art of Vanishing : A Memoir of Wanderlust by Laura Smith; OverDrive, Inc is a self-help book available to read on EtoBox.

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A young woman chafing at the confines of marriage confronts the high cost of craving freedom and adventure in a memoir that "pushes literary boundaries" ( The Atlantic ) At twenty-five, as her wedding date approached, Laura Smith began to feel trapped. Not by her fiancé, who shared her appetite for adventure, but by the unsettling idea that it was hard to be at once married and free. Laura wanted her life to be different. She wanted her marriage to be different. And she found in the strangely captivating story of another restless young woman determined to live without constraints both an enticement and a challenge. Barbara Newhall Follett was a free-spirited trailblazer who published her first novel at 11, enlisted as a deck hand on a boat bound for the south China seas at 15 and was one of the first women to hike the Appalachian trail. Then in December 1939, when she was not much older than Laura, she walked out of her apartment on a quiet tree-lined street in Brookline, leaving behind a fraying marriage, and vanished without a trace. Obsessed by her story, Laura set off to find out what had happened. The Art of Vanishing is a riveting mystery and a piercing exploration of marria

Who reads The Art of Vanishing : A Memoir of Wanderlust?

Author

Laura Smith; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Viking

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780399563607

Category

self-help

Subjects

Memoir, Family & Relationships, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.9 / 5 (128 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14