A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life
"Intrepid and empathetic, gifted with the dispassionate gaze of a born observer...a harmonious collage of worldview and character, a wunderkammer of experiences in a life fully lived." --Melissa…
Specifikacia A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life
"Intrepid and empathetic, gifted with the dispassionate gaze of a born observer...a harmonious collage of worldview and character, a wunderkammer of experiences in a life fully lived." --Melissa Febos, The New York Times "DeSanctis encounters spies and love interests, but it's her lushly polished writing that makes this book a joy to read." --The WashingtonPostVogue's Best Books of 2022The Washington Post's Best Travel Books of 2022Restless to leave, eager to return: this memoir in essays captures the unrelenting pull between the past and the present, between traveling the world and staying home.Starting in a dreary Moscow hotel room in 1983, weaving back and forth to rural New England, and ending