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The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust
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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 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 with Pottery Barn lamps telling our kids to behave? Searingly honest and written with a raw intensity, it will challenge you to rethink your most intimate decisions and may just upend your life.
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02/06/2018
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Laura Smith. (2018). The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust. Unabridged Books on Tape.

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Laura Smith. 2018. The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust. Books on Tape.

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Laura Smith, The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust. Books on Tape, 2018.

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Laura Smith. The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2018.

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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 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 with Pottery Barn lamps telling our kids to behave? Searingly honest and written with a raw intensity, it will challenge you to rethink your most intimate decisions and may just upend your life.
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        Smith’s seductive memoir interweaves her search for personal freedom with an account of a woman who abandoned her marriage and disappeared without a trace in the early 20th century. Smith feared that married life would be predictable and dull. In her mid-20s, Smith was told a story about Barbara Follett, who deserted her own marriage in 1939 and was never seen again. Intrigued, Smith began researching Follett’s life. As a child of 12, Follett published a novel, The House Without Windows, that became a bestseller. Follett embarked on a life of travel and adventure, got married at 19, and then disappeared when she was 25. While digging deeper into Follett’s life, Smith “began to feel an uncomfortable sensation: recognition.” Smith then found herself testing the boundaries of her marriage. While at a writing retreat in Banff, Canada, she had an affair with another man. When she was about to sleep with yet another man at the same conference she stopped herself, realizing that she was “a monogamous adulteress.” After this revelation, she began to reconsider her marriage and the course of her life. Smith’s narrative is a riveting journey mapping the route of two restless women and their search for fulfillment.

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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...
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