Congratulations to Lydia Paar on "The Exit is the Entrance"

Congratulations to Lydia Paar! Her debut essay collection, The Exit is the Entrance, was recently released from the University of Georgia Press. Lydia joined the American workforce at age fourteen, holding a wide variety of jobs (twenty-seven, at last count) between then and now, across twenty-five different homes in eight states. The essays in this collection explore her attempts to evade or transform the lower-middle class American experience across various cityscapes, towns, deserts, and in-between places. As she moves through these spaces, she seeks peace, connection, and freedom: from the hip streets of Portland to desolate deserts, Army basic training to cross-country bus trips, to eerie St. Louis funeral homes, and more.

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