Connecting the Threads—A Memoir in Essays

AN INTERVIEW WITH KELLY MCMASTERS

By Brianna Avenia-Tapper

Kelly McMasters

Best-selling author Kelly McMasters’s fourth book, The Leaving Season (W. W. Norton, 2023) is a memoir-in-essays about marriage, divorce, moving, and loss. McMasters’s prose is evocative and thoughtful, studded with images that will haunt you long after reading. The Leaving Season is also a masterclass in how to create satisfying narrative coherence from disparate essayistic threads. Literary Mama editor Brianna A...