# A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life - Hardcover

by **Marcia DeSanctis** (Author)

  
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In these essays, Marcia simultaneously navigates  
the globe while carving out a second career as a travel writer for major  
magazines, while navigating her own past and the bumpy and sometimes complicated  
road of midlife.

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Marcia's voice has quiet power, restraint and unadulterated  
honesty. She is unafraid to reveal her vulnerabilities, hurts and failures. Her  
narrative style has won her many accolades, including five Lowell Thomas Awards  
for excellence in travel journalism, and the 2021 Solas Award for Travel Story  
of the year.

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Above all, her stories are about restlessless,  
the human desire to keep moving. As such, her stories have joyful exuberance  
and a sense of wonder, and pack a strong emotional punch.

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The essays appeal to anyone who craves a strong  
storytelling voice, especially from a writer with an astonishing lifetime of  
stories -- working for Barbara Walters at ABC News, and traveling the world as  
an international journalist.

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These rich essays dig deep into human vulnerability,  
and concern the intersection of time and place, home and the road, the past and  
the present, and will ignite the readers' imagination.

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Marcia is an experienced working journalist, and  
is deeply cognizant of cultural sensitivities. With a master's degree in foreign  
policy from Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, she also comes to her  
work with high intellectual awareness. Though her writing is full of wonder, her work as a traveler is not about what she discovers,  
especially in developing countries, but rather, what the place helps her  
discover about _herself._

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Many of these essays have been published in  
leading outlets: _Vogue, Travel + Leisure, BBC, Town & Country, LitHub, The  
Millions, Creative Nonfiction, The New York Times, Air Mail,_ to name but a few,  
and Marcia retains excellent relationships with her editors in these  
publications.

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Marcia's prior book, _100 PLACES IN FRANCE EVERY  
WOMAN SHOULD GO_, debuted as a **_New York Times_ Travel Bestseller**.

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All of these essays, some in a memoir format  
about people she met long ago in her travels as a foreign correspondent, were  
written between the ages of 50 and 60. Women, especially women of a certain age,  
are hungry for inspiring, literary stories told by someone relatable, whom they  
trust. Women are 13 percent more likely than men to have read a book in the last year.

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Books of essays are ideally suited for our  
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### Author Biography

**Marcia DeSanctis** is a journalist, essayist, and author of _100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go_, a New York Times travel bestseller. She has won five Lowell Thomas Awards from the Society of American Travel Writers and is the recipient of two Grand Prize Solas Awards including the 2021 Gold Award for Travel Story of the Year. Before becoming a writer, she was a television news producer for ABC, NBC and CBS News. She lives in Connecticut.

**Number of Pages:** 336

**Dimensions:** 1.2 x 8.7 x 5.8 IN

**Publication Date:** May 03, 2022

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