The Art of Leaving: A Memoir

Book Description

An intimate memoir in essays by an award-winning Israeli writer who travels the world, from New York to India, searching for love, belonging, and an escape from grief following the death of her father when she was a young girl

This searching collection opens with the death of Ayelet Tsabari’s father when she was just nine years old. His passing left her feeling rootless, devastated, and driven to question her complex identity as an Israeli of Yemeni descent in a country that suppressed and devalued her ancestors’ traditions.

In The Art of Leaving, Tsabari tells her story, from her early love of writing and words, to her rebellion during her mandatory service in the Israeli army. She travels from Israel to New York, Canada, Thailand, and India, falling in and out of love with countries, men and women, drugs and alcohol, running away from responsibilities and refusing to settle in one place. She recounts her first marriage, her struggle to define herself as a writer in a new language, her decision to become a mother, and finally her rediscovery and embrace of her family history—a history marked by generations of headstrong women who struggled to choose between their hearts and their homes. Eventually, she realizes that she must reconcile the memories of her father and the sadness of her past if she is ever going to come to terms with herself.

With fierce, emotional prose, Ayelet Tsabari crafts a beautiful meditation about the lengths we will travel to try to escape our grief, the universal search to find a place where we belong, and the sense of home we eventually find within ourselves.

Advance praise for The Art of Leaving

“Candid, affecting . . . [Ayelet Tsabari’s] linked essays cohere into a tender, moving memoir.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Ayelet Tsabari’s memoir is a passionate account of the pain, fire, and fury of adolescence and young adulthood, the search for a sense of belonging, and reconciling the disparate parts of our lives and ultimately ourselves.”—Camilla Gibb, author of This Is Happy and The Beauty of Humanity Movement

“Ayelet Tsabari is a fierce-tender writer. Her work is an enchanting mix of vivid anecdote and vigorous insight—spanning generations and geographies, glittering with humor and heart.”—Kyo Maclear, author of Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation

中文：

书名：The Art of Leaving: A Memoir

一位获奖的以色列作家在散文中的亲密回忆录，她周游世界，从纽约到印度，寻找爱、归属感，以及在她还是个小女孩的时候父亲去世后逃离悲伤

这本搜索系列以阿耶莱特·察巴里的父亲去世开始，当时她只有九岁。他的去世让她感到无依无靠，悲痛欲绝，并被迫质疑她作为也门裔以色列人的复杂身份，这个国家压抑和贬低了她祖先的传统。

In 离开的艺术，Tsabari讲述了她的故事，从她早期对写作和文字的热爱，到她在以色列军队义务服役期间的叛逆。她从以色列旅行到纽约、加拿大、泰国和印度，与国家、男人和女人、毒品和酒精相爱又失恋，逃避责任，拒绝在一个地方定居。她讲述了她的第一次婚姻，她努力用一种新的语言将自己定义为一名作家，她决定成为一名母亲，最后她重新发现并拥抱了她的家族史–这段历史的标志是一代代固执的女性在内心和家庭之间艰难地选择。最终，她意识到，如果她想要与自己达成协议，她必须调和对父亲的记忆和过去的悲伤。

通过激烈而感人的散文，阿耶莱特·萨巴里精心制作了一部美丽的冥想，讲述了我们将旅行多长时间来试图逃离悲伤，寻找属于我们的地方的普遍搜索，以及我们最终在自己内心找到的家的感觉。

提前表扬 离开的艺术

“坦率，感人至深。。。[阿耶莱特·察巴里的]将文章紧密地联系在一起，形成了一本温情动人的回忆录。—Kirkus Reviews (星评)

艾莱特·茨巴里的回忆录充满激情地描述了青春期和青春期的痛苦、火焰和愤怒，寻找归属感，并调和了我们生活中截然不同的部分，最终调和了我们自己。—Camilla Gibb, author of This Is Happy and 人性之美运动

阿耶莱特·茨巴里是一位凶狠温柔的作家。她的作品是生动轶事和充满活力的洞察力的迷人组合-跨越世代和地理，闪耀着幽默和内心的光芒。-Kyo Maclear，《 鸟儿的艺术生活：一年的观察