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.
The Year of Letting Go
by Margot Sullivan
“Quiet, funny and devastating. Sullivan writes about starting over better than anyone I know.”
What people are saying
“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
