Early Leaving A Novel A mother wakes one morning to find the police at her door to arrest her only child a star athlete and honor student for murder The Smallwoods are one of those families who project a rosy image exactl
A mother wakes one morning to find the police at her door to arrest her only child a star athlete and honor student for murder.The Smallwoods are one of those families who project a rosy image, exactly what we all hoped and imagined our lives would be Peter Smallwood is a patent attorney with the oldest firm in town Kathryne is president of parents council at the privatA mother wakes one morning to find the police at her door to arrest her only child a star athlete and honor student for murder.The Smallwoods are one of those families who project a rosy image, exactly what we all hoped and imagined our lives would be Peter Smallwood is a patent attorney with the oldest firm in town Kathryne is president of parents council at the private high school their son, Early, attends She is an over involved mother Peter is under involved She s excessive when she should hold back he s stingy when fullness is needed Kathryne is so protective of their son, so overbearing, that the only way out for him is to disappoint her in a profound way The novel opens the night before his sentencing It covers the next thirteen months and flashes back to family memories Kathryne has told again and again through the years, trotting them out like scrubbed children as well as the memories she would just as soon forget.EARLY LEAVING is Kathryne s story She probes the pieces of the past to see if she should have seen the end coming Was there any point where she might have come between her son and what lay in wait for him Or was it just the randomness of fate and its consequences Was she the cause All she ever wanted was to keep him safe and happy Isn t that what every mother wants
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Judy Goldman is the author of a new memoir, Losing My Sister published October 2012 Excerpts appeared in Real Simple Magazine and Drafthorse, an online journal She is also the author of two novels, Early Leaving and The Slow Way Back, as well as two books of poetry, Holding Back Winter and Wanting To Know the End.She has received the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, the Mary Ruffin Poole Award for First Fiction, the Gerald Cable Poetry Prize, the Roanoke Chowan Prize for Poetry, the Oscar Arnold Young Prize for Poetry, and the Zoe Kincaid Brockman Prize for Poetry Her work has been published in many literary journals, including Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Ohio Review, Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, and Prairie Schooner.Goldman s book reviews have appeared in The Washington Post and The Charlotte Observer She offers writing tips on her blog at judygoldman blog.Goldman lives with her husband in Charlotte, North Carolina.