{"product_id":"9781429942744","title":"Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a renowned sociologist, the wisdom of saying goodbye\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\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\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eExit\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\u003cp\u003eToo often, Lawrence-Lightfoot believes, we exalt new beginnings t the expense of learning from our goodbyes. \u003ci\u003eExit\u003c\/i\u003e 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","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141844615408,"sku":"9781429942744","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429942744_p0.jpg?v=1769902497","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429942744","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}