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A literary exploration of one of lifes most taxing emotional and pervasiveexperiences moving. When acclaimed memoirist and scholar Louise DeSalvosold the house she and her husband had raised their children in and moved to abeautiful new home in Montclair New Jersey she was shocked to discover a rashof unexpected emotions interfering with her plans. Suddenly the old crampedhouse was paradise and the new house a barren building with none of thecomforts or familiarity of home. Faced with a sudden disillusionment over herdream house DeSalvo turned as she always has to her favorite writers.What she found was a treasure trove of material most of which has seldombeen written about before chronicling the tumultuous and inspiring moves ofsome of our most beloved literary figures. Percy Shelley destitute andrestless moved his tired family from one home to another only to settle inwhat he came to believe was a haunted house on the Gulf of Spezia in which hesoon drowned. Virginia Woolf on her hunt for the perfect room of her own wasa real estate hound and spent years trying to get back to her home in Londonafter a nervous breakdown forced her to relocate to the country. More recentlyMark Doty found selling the house he and his dying lover had spent decadesrenovating surprisingly freeing as the couple found a new home in which to saygoodbye. DeSalvo discovers that the pain hope and turmoil involved inmoving have been universal for generations. On Moving mines the hopesdisappointments memories and fears that come with that simple yet fundamentalpart of everyones lives moving. «
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