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Smith, Laura, 1986-
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Follett, Barbara Newhall, 1914-1939.
Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Wives -- United States -- Biography.
Gifted children -- United States -- Biography.
Missing women -- United States -- Biography.
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Missing persons -- Investigation -- United States -- Case studies.
Women adventurers -- United States -- Biography.
Autonomy (Psychology) -- Case studies.
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Smith, Laura, 1986-
Follett, Barbara Newhall, 1914-1939.
Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Wives -- United States -- Biography.
Gifted children -- United States -- Biography.
Missing women -- United States -- Biography.
Missing persons -- United States -- Biography.
Missing persons -- Investigation -- United States -- Case studies.
Women adventurers -- United States -- Biography.
Autonomy (Psychology) -- Case studies.
Marriage.
Sex role.
Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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The art of vanishing : a memoir of wanderlust /
Laura
Smith
.
by
Smith
,
Laura
,
1986-
Viking, 2018.
Call #:
362.8395 S654a
Subjects
Follett, Barbara Newhall, 1914-1939.
Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Wives -- United States -- Biography.
Gifted children -- United States -- Biography.
Missing women -- United States -- Biography.
Missing persons -- United States -- Biography.
Missing persons -- Investigation -- United States -- Case studies.
Women adventurers -- United States -- Biography.
Autonomy (Psychology) -- Case studies.
Marriage.
Sex role.
Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9780399563584 (hc.)
Description:
261 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary:
"At twenty-five, as her wedding date approached, [the author] began to feel trapped by the unsettling idea that it was hard to be at once married and free. She 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, the American child prodigy novelist Barbara Newhall Follett who in December 1939, when she was not much older than
Laura
, walked out of her apartment and vanished without a trace. A riveting mystery and a piercing exploration of marriage and convention that asks deep and uncomfortable questions: Why do we give up on our childhood dreams? Is marriage a golden noose? Must we find ourselves in the same row houses telling our kids to behave?
Laura
Smith
's writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, and Mother Jones. She lives in Oakland, California"--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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