A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life - Marcia Desanctis

n nVogue's Best Books of 2022n nRestless 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.n nStarting in a dreary Moscow hotel room in 1983, weaving back and forth to rural New England, and n ending on a West Texas trail in 2020, Marcia DeSanctis tells stories nthat span the globe and half a lifetime. With intimacy and depth, over nquicksand in France, insomnia in Cambodia, up a volcano in Rwanda, nspinning through the eye of a snowstorm in Bismarck, and atop a dumpster n in her own backyard, this New York Times bestselling author, award-winning essayist and journalist for Vogue and Travel + Leisure immerses n us in places waiting to be experienced and some that may be more than nwe're up for. She encounters spies, angels, leopards, shoes, the odd nrattlesnake, a random head of state, and many times over, the ghosts of nher past. Each subsequent voyage leads to revelations about her search nfor solitude, a capacity for adventure, and always, a longing for home.n