This is How We Leave

We all run from something, but do we have to leave? 

Against a background of family runaways, award-winning memoirist Joanne Nelson explores what it takes to stay when the going begins to dazzle and the staying seems way too ordinary. With a great grandfather who disappears, a grandfather who strays, and a father who walks away, she''s lived a life liable to give way at any time. In unflinching pro...