Speaking with Strangers: A Memoir

From the author of American Girl, a "profoundly moving" memoir of single motherhood, loneliness, and finding one's way home (The New York Times).

After growing up in a small New England town and achieving professional success working for Manhattan fashion magazines, Mary Cantwell finds herself personally bereft. Having made it through to the other side of a painful divorce, she is faced with the challenge of raising two daughters alone and seizes any opportunity to leave it all behind—if on...