{"product_id":"exit-the-endings-that-set-us-free","title":"Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eExit: The Endings That Set Us Free\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eSara Lawrence-Lightfoot\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780374151195\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eSarah Crichton Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2012\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a renowned sociologist, the wisdom of saying goodbye \u003cbr\u003eSara 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \"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. \u003cbr\u003eLawrence-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToo often, Lawrence-Lightfoot believes, we exalt new beginnings t the expense of learning from our goodbyes. \"Exit\" finds isdom and perspective in the possibility of moving on and marks the start of a new conversation, to help us discover how we might make our exits with purpose and dignity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Sarah Crichton Books","offers":[{"title":"Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free | Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot | Hardcover | 9780374151195 | Used: Like New | Self-Help 1588338","offer_id":50632466759938,"sku":"1588338","price":21.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/51a6hHKgx3L.jpg?v=1791231144","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/exit-the-endings-that-set-us-free","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}