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""Julie Fingersh's Stay is so rich, wise, funny, and beautifully written. It's hard to put down once you start."" --Anne Lamott, #1 New York Times bestselling author Named one of Zibby Owens's Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2024 ""Fingersh's story should help readers dealing with family secrets and mental and physical health issues feel less alone."" --Booklist Called ""Rich, wise, funny, and beautifully written"" by #1 New York Times bestselling author Anne Lamott, Stay : A Story of Family, Love, and Other Traumas is a riveting debut that captures the joyous and painful complexity of family love and loyalty, the cost of family secrets, and the quest to help the people we love most without losing our own way. It's also a rare window into two of the biggest epidemics gripping society today: mental illness and chronic illness and the ways in which they affect relationships, personal identity, and the blueprint of our lives. Told through the eyes of the author as both a young sibling and a mid-life parent, Julie Fingersh seamlessly weaves together present and past, unlocking the puzzle of her early adulthood with her struggling brother from the vantage point of a mid-life parent on the verge of an empty nest and her next chapter, just as her college-bound daughter's life suddenly careens off track. Sparkling with warmth, wit, and lyrical prose, Fingersh provides insight and sustenance for everyone wrestling with mid-life's ghosts, parenting adult children, and the twin pillagers of fear and the inner critic. Above all, Stay is for readers who want to think, feel, laugh, cry, and perhaps see their own life's trajectory and path forward with new eyes.

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"Stay is a beautiful memoir centered on the power of love--the joys of love, the pain of love, the responsibility of love--that is honest, profound, and funny. It's masterfully told and thoughtprovoking, and I read it in a single day. I can't stop thinking about it. I loved it. --Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project Stay is a book of remarkable emotional depth and wisdom for anyone in search of moving past their pain and making the most of their one precious life. Fingersh writes with a brilliant mind and a loving heart. --Edith Eva Eger, New York Times bestselling author of The Gift, The Choice, and featured guest on Oprah's Super Soul Sunday Julie Fingersh's invaluable and highly readable memoir is asking us who we thought we were, how that squares with who we've become and what we might want to do about it. A question every woman I know is asking right about now. --Kelly Corrigan, four-time New York Times bestselling author and host of PBS's ""Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan"" Luminous, irreverent, captivating...With a voice you'll fall in love with like a new best friend, Stay is a love letter to all of us mid-lifers searching for a new roadmap of joy and meaning. It's also for us mothers, daughters, and sisters who want to love fiercely without losing ourselves. Stay will make you think, feel, laugh, cry, and examine your own life with new eyes. --Laura Munson, New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author"

"Stay is a beautiful memoir centered on the power of love--the joys of love, the pain of love, the responsibility of love--that is honest, profound, and funny. It's masterfully told and thoughtprovoking, and I read it in a single day. I can't stop thinking about it. I loved it. --Gretchen Rubin, bestselling author of The Happiness Project nine-book series, host of the award-winning Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast Stay is a book of remarkable emotional depth and wisdom for anyone in search of moving past their pain and making the most of their one precious life. Fingersh writes with a brilliant mind and a loving heart. --Edith Eva Eger, New York Times bestselling author of The Gift, The Choice Julie Fingersh's invaluable and highly readable memoir is asking us who we thought we were, how that squares with who we've become and what we might want to do about it. A question every woman I know is asking right about now. --Kelly Corrigan, four-time New York Times bestselling author, host of PBS's one-hour longform interview show, ""Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan"", podcast host of ""Kelly Corrigan Wonders"" Luminous, irreverent, captivating...With a voice you'll fall in love with like a new best friend, Stay is a love letter to all of us mid-lifers searching for a new roadmap of joy and meaning. It's also for us mothers, daughters, and sisters who want to love fiercely without losing ourselves. Stay will make you think, feel, laugh, cry, and examine your own life with new eyes. --Laura Munson, New York Times bestselling Author of This Is Not The Story You Think It Is and Willa's Grove"

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Julie Fingersh is a writer and freelance journalist. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Huffington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Miami Herald, Business Week and more. Her blog is a midlife sequel of an award winning humorist column she wrote in New York City in her twenties for Billboard Publications. She also teaches online cooking classes and, having served as a personal and writing coach for college-bound teens for fifteen years, teaches “Cracking the Code on These Years and Beyond,” a personal growth class for students in her community. Julie served as the founding executive director of Boston Cares, which became a nationally recognized model for community and corporate partnerships and recently celebrated its 32nd year. In this role, she appeared as a regular guest on NPR and other radio and television outlets, and singlehandedly recruited Secretary of State General Colin Powell to share the stage with her as a keynote speaker for Boston’s first-ever day of citywide corporate service. She has two adult children and lives with her husband and two relentlessly hungry and entertaining dogs in Marin County, California. Read more about Julie and her work at https://www.juliefingersh.com.

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