Title
Grace Period: A Memoir in Pieces,Used
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From INDIEGoldawardwinning author Kelly J. Baker comes a breathtaking memoir about building a new life upon broken dreams.When Kelly J. Baker finished her Ph.D. in religion, she imagined that she would end up in the tenuretrack job for which she trained. She had done everything right: written a provocative and wellresearched book, given presentations at national conferences, published articles, and created and taught a number of popular classes.Doing everything right, however, doesnt guarantee anything if the career you trained for is no longer sustainable. The economic depression in 2008 gutted the job market for tenuretrack jobs in the humanities, so she couldnt find her dream job. Instead, she worked for years as an underpaid nontenuretrack instructor. But after five years of job rejections and a new baby on the way, she took a year off to figure out if the career she trained for was actually the life she wanted: a grace period.Baker documents her transition out of academia and the emotional turmoil of rebuilding a life beyond what she had dreamed of. Baker resists telling an easy story about her exit from the academy into a postacademic career; she does not smooth over the hard reality of transitions. She describes the importance of patience and the realization that the lives we imagine for ourselves are tenuous at best and often are impossible to achieve. In the end, she lets go of the dream, building a life with her family and a new career. Along the way, she provides a ray of hope for all who desire a new path in life.As much as Grace Period is a memoir,it is a book about dreams: what they give us, what they take from us, how they break us, and how they remake us. The Tallahassee DemocratIn a series of vivid and beautiful essays, Baker uses her changing relationship to academia to reflect on grace periods, those moments (or strings of moments) when you leave one possible future behind without quite knowing what's next. Derek Attig, Ph.D., Book Riot
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