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From a renowned sociologist, the wisdom of saying goodbyeSara Lawrence-Lightfoot is enthralled by exits: long farewells, quick goodbyes, sudden endings, the ordinary and the extraordinary. There's a relationship, she attests, between small goodbyes and our ability'to master and mark the larger farewells.'In Exit, her tenth book, she explores the ways we leave one thing and move on to the next; how we anticipate, define, and reflect on our departures; our epiphanies that something is over and done with. 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 he'field'after four years of research; and many more.Too often, Lawrence-Lightfoot believes, we exalt new beginnings at the exp

Author

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Publisher

Sarah Crichton Books ; Distributed D & M Publishers

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374533908

Subjects

Psychology, Sociology, Self Help