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Ladder of Years

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Ladder of Years was named a New York Times Notable Book. A BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To her husband and three almost-grown children, she has vanished without trace or reason. But for Delia, who feels like a tiny gnat buzzing around her family's edges, "walking away from it all" is not a premeditated act, but an impulse that will lead her into a new, exciting, and unimagined life.

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Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Year
1993
ISBN-13
9789576794100
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Self-discovery and reinventionFamily and identityMidlife crisis