For 30 years, writer Meghan McDonnell has chronicled her life beginning at age eight through present day. With searing candor and tenderness, her musings on daily life and observations of family, social and romantic relationships coalesce in a commentary on growing up, facing down passion and fear, and American life in the 21st century. Wide in scope and vivid in detail, her journals are her confessional love letter to the world. Join her on a fearless, vulnerable, sometimes painful and quixotic, but always honest journey, also known as the human experience. Readers who love Joan Didion or Cheryl Strayed will enjoy this author.
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Minor: Volume One spans her eighth year through age 17; reflections on family, friendship, education, a stint at survival camp, and coming of age.
Novice: Volume Two of this addictive and vicarious series spans her freshman year of college, first love, a trip to Australia, and navigating young adulthood, living on her own among peers.
Limbo: Volume Three spans her search for identity, grappling with life choices and heart ache, and plans for travel to Europe.
In Elsewhere: Volume Four, McDonnell visits New York and London, walks away from her first love, begins her foray into acting, wades through family friction, and goes back to college.
Faithful: Volume Five covers McDonnell’s third year in college, traveling, working in a diner and lounge, and explorations into rape, September 11, family, friendship, alcoholism, depression, and the meaning of life.
In Vespers: Volume Six, McDonnell contends with a boyfriend in spiritual crisis, college, working in a bar, a trip to New York, and reflections on relationships with family and friends.
In Onward: Volume Seven, McDonnell gets married in Las Vegas, copes with the unexpected death of a significant person in her life, supports her best friend through pregnancy and childbirth, and continues to reflect on family, friends, sense of place, and identity.
In Sojourn: Volume Eight of this existential series, McDonnell travels Western Europe for two months, loses a close family friend, and grapples with the meaning of creativity and life purpose - a deep dive into the nature of existence, physicality, addiction, and redemption.
Ingress: Volume Nine includes McDonnell’s move back to her hometown of Seattle, an elusive search for satisfying work, feeling adrift in her marriage, acting classes, and contending with fractious friendships.
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