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Keep Moving by Maggie Smith
Keep Moving by Maggie  Smith







Keep Moving by Maggie Smith

Like kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with gold, Keep Moving celebrates the beauty and strength on the other side of loss. Formally, it has much in common with This Story Will Change, Elizabeth Crane's recent. Then came Keep Moving: The Journal, and now, this memoir tracking Smith’s attempt to heal herself. In this deeply moving book of quotes and essays, Maggie writes about new beginnings as opportunities for transformation. The author first charted her response to the pain of her husband's infidelity in a series of Twitter posts that became a well-received book called Keep Moving.

Keep Moving by Maggie Smith

When Maggie Smith, the award-winning author of the viral poem “Good Bones,” started writing inspirational daily Twitter posts in the wake of her divorce, they unexpectedly caught fire. “Powerful essays on loss, endurance, and renewal.” - Peopleįor fans of Glennon Doyle, Cheryl Strayed, and Anne Lamott, a collection of quotes and essays on facing life’s challenges with creativity, courage, and resilience. “A shining reminder to learn all we can from this moment, rebuilding ourselves in the darkness so that we may come out wiser, kinder, and stronger on the other side.” - The Boston Globe “A meditation on kindness and hope, and how to move forward through grief.” -NPR Something beautiful.The NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the author of YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL With a poet’s attention to language and an innovative approach to the genre, Smith reveals how, in the aftermath of loss, we can discover our power and make something new. Above all, this memoir is an argument for possibility. It is a story about a mother’s fierce and constant love for her children, and a woman’s love and regard for herself. You Could Make This Place Beautiful, like the work of Deborah Levy, Rachel Cusk, and Gina Frangello, is an unflinching look at what it means to live and write our own lives. The power of these pieces is cumulative: word after word, they build into a larger interrogation of family, work, and patriarchy. With the spirit of self-inquiry and empathy she’s known for, Smith interweaves snapshots of a life with meditations on secrets, anger, forgiveness, and narrative itself. The book begins with one woman’s personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist even in many progressive homes.

Keep Moving by Maggie Smith

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” The bestselling poet and author of the “powerful” (People ) and “luminous” ( Newsweek ) Keep Moving offers a lush and heartrending memoir exploring coming of age in your middle age.

Keep Moving by Maggie Smith

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Good Housekeeping, Goodreads, Zibby Mag, Newsweek, BookPage, and LitHub “.reminds you that you can.survive deep loss, sink into life’s deep beauty, and constantly, constantly make yourself new.”-Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author









Keep Moving by Maggie  Smith