Grace Period: A Memoir in Pieces

How do you build a life after failed dreams and missed opportunities? Buddha-killer Kelly J. Baker finished her PhD in religion and imagined that she would end up in the tenure-track job for which she trained. She had done everything right: written a provocative and well-researched book, given presentations at national conferences, published articles, and created and taught a number of popular classes. But after five years of job rejections and a new baby on the way, she decided to take a year off to figure out if the career she trained for was actually the life she wanted. Grace Period: A Memoir in Pieces are the essays that she wrote to make sense of how her life went off-track. 144 pages, $3.99 on Kindle or iTunes. Also available in paperback from Blue Crow Books.