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Lydia Paar
The Exit Is the Entrance: Essays on Escape (University of Georgia Press, September), a collection of nonfiction that moves through physical and emotional landscapes in search of a center, a whole, all while documenting and interrogating labor in the workforce, labors of love, and the tough and tender moments during one's coming of age; every essay is an entrance, another way of being, a transformation, a motion toward peace. Agent: None. Editor: Beth Snead. First Lines: "'I'm going to escah-pay.' You say it like the Greek word 'agape,' a childlike mispronunciation from the film Finding Nemo that you like because the rhyme reminds you: departing from things that don't work can offer hope for deeper unity. And if there's no exit, you can make one."
THERE are many ways to talk about a book, but I often talk this way about my debut essay collection: "I went AWOL from the army at age nineteen, and I've spent the last two decades since then thinking about violence, class, the metaphoric prisons we find ourselves in, those we create for...