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Including the Periphery

Personal Essays

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Sep 30, 2025

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Award-winning author Roselee Blooston has written a collection of loosely linked personal essays on change, perspective, and renewal. It is a companion piece to Blooston's first memoir, Dying in Dubai (Apprentice House Press 2016), and begins with her adolescence and early fifties--before her husband's death--and extends into later life on her own. The essays explore the inner and outer landscape of her move to New York's Hudson Valley, mining the author's evolving priorities and self-awareness, as time becomes more precious. The past informs the present, with youth and age in a dialogue that will resonate with readers of any generation.

Product Details

PublisherApprentice House
Publish DateSeptember 30, 2025
Pages208
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconHardback
EAN/UPC9781627206129
Dimensions8.5 X 5.5 X 0.6 inches | 0.9 pounds
BISAC Categories: Literary Fiction

About the Author

Roselee Blooston is the author of the novel Trial by Family, a Gold Medal Winner in the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards, the memoir Dying in Dubai, a 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Winner and a 2017 Eric Hoffer Award Finalist, the collection The Chocolate Jar and Other Stories (2022), and the memoir Almost: My Life in the Theater (2022)-all published by Apprentice House Press. Her plays have been produced nationally and internationally, including over Voice of America. Other publications include AARP The Magazine, literary journals, and anthologies--among them, The Widows' Handbook. She founded the non-profit Tunnel Vision Writers Project, taught in university programs, and currently coaches and edits privately. She lives in Red Hook, New York. For more information go to www.roseleeblooston.com

Reviews

"Roselee Blooston's humanity, heart, and honesty are on full display.... she opens the doors of her life for her readers. And we, the readers, are the better for it!" -- Deborah Kalb, author of Off to Join the Circus and other books

"Candid and consistently engaging... You'll not only enjoy Blooston and admire the meaning she's made of her life thus far, you'll also find yourself hoping you're creating as good a version of it for yourself." -- Maria Giura, author of Celibate: A Memoir and What My Father Taught Me

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