Reading Writing and Leaving Home

At once a memoir of an exotic life a meditation on the art and craft of writing and a brilliant examination of the always complex relationship between fiction and life Lynn Freed’s critically acclaimed Reading Writing and Leaving Home surprises instructs and delights. With “dark and comforting wisdom” (Anne Lamott) and “great intellectual and emotional range” (Diane Johnson) Freed tears off all fictional disguises and exposes the human being behind the artist. A must-read for writers readers and anyone engaged in literature Reading Writing and Leaving Home is destined to be a classic in the field of writing about writing.