Title The art of vanishing : a memoir of wanderlust / Laura Smith.

Publication Info.	New York, New York : Viking, 2018.
	©2018

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Location	Call No.	Status
Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies	92 BIOGRAPHY SMITH	Check Shelf
Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction	306.81 SMI	Check Shelf
Southington Library - Adult	B FOLLETT	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies	B FOLLETT BARBARA S	Check Shelf
Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department	B-FOLLETT, B.	Check Shelf

Description	261 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary	"At twenty-five, as her wedding date approached, [the author] began to feel trapped ... by the unsettling idea that it was hard to be at once married and free. [She] wanted her life to be different. She wanted her marriage to be different. And she found in the strangely captivating story of another restless young woman determined to live without constraints both an enticement and a challenge, Barbara Newhall Follett ... [who] in December 1939, when she was not much older than Laura, walked out of her apartment ... and vanished without a trace. [This memoir] is a riveting mystery and a piercing exploration of marriage and convention that asks deep and uncomfortable questions: Why do we give up on our childhood dreams? Is marriage a golden noose? Must we find ourselves in the same row houses with Pottery Barn lamps telling our kids to behave? "--Amazon.com.
Subject	Follett, Barbara Newhall, 1914-1939.
	Follett, Barbara Newhall, 1914-1939. (OCoLC)fst01965325
	Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
	Wives -- United States -- Biography.
	Missing persons -- United States -- Biography.
	Missing persons -- Investigation -- United States -- Case studies.
	Marriage.
	Sex role.
	Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
	Authors. (OCoLC)fst00821688
	Missing persons. (OCoLC)fst01023702
	Wives. (OCoLC)fst01176420
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Self-actualization (Psychology)
	Identity (Psychology)
	Voyages and travels -- Psychological aspects.
	Adventure and adventurers -- United States -- Biography.
	Voyages and travels.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
	FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Marriage & Long-Term Relationships.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Biographies.
	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
ISBN	9780399563584 (hardcover)
	039956358X (hardcover)

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