Cover of The Year of Letting Go

The Year of Letting Go

by Margot Sullivan

A woman walks out of her marriage on a Tuesday in March with no plan and one suitcase. The novel follows the twelve months after — the sublet in Astoria, the job she takes at a garden center because it was hiring, the friendship with her downstairs neighbor that becomes the most important relationship she's had in years. It's not a divorce book, exactly. It's about what happens when you stop being the person everyone agreed you were.

Details

Release Date

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Pages

304

ISBN

ISBN-13: 978-0525521143

Praise

  • “Quiet, funny and devastating. Sullivan writes about starting over better than anyone I know.”

    Clara Voss, author of The Salt Year
  • “A novel about leaving that is really about arriving. I read it in two sittings and thought about it for weeks.”

    The Hudson Review of Books
  • “Every sentence earns its place. The garden center chapters alone are worth the price of the book.”

    Northeast Literary Quarterly

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