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As featured in the New York Times "Modern Love" column * a Redbook Magazine must-read * Rumpus, Hello Giggles, Bustle, and Southern Living magazine Fall book pickFugitives from a man as alluring as he is violent, Andrea Jarrell and her mother develop a powerful, unusual bond. Once grown, Jarrell thinks she's put that chapter of her life behind her -- until a woman she knows is murdered, and she suddenly sees that it's her mother's choices she's been trying to escape all along. Without preaching or prescribing, I'm the One Who Got Away is a life-affirming story of having the courage to become both safe enough and vulnerable enough to love and be loved.
About the Author
My personal essays have appeared in The New York Times "Modern Love" column; The Washington Post; The New York Times "Motherlode" blog; Narrative Magazine; Brevity Blog; Brain, Child Magazine; Full Grown People; Memoir Journal; Literary Mama; The Huffington Post; Role Reboot; The Mid; Mamalode; The Manifest-Station; Washingtonian Magazine; Cleaver Magazine; Creative Nonfiction's "Tiny Truths," and several anthologies. I write mostly about love and relationships; marriage, parenting and family; and life in recovery (from eating disorders and as the loved one of alcoholics) . I have been a daily yoga practitioner for over a decade and yoga sometimes finds its way into my work. I am also a lifelong traveler - place and being a stranger in a strange land are also favorite topics. I earned my BA in literature at Scripps College in Claremont, California and my MFA in creative writing and literature at Bennington College. I am also an alumna of the Hedgebrook writers' colony and a recipient of a Martin Dibner Writing Fellowship.
