“The story of home is one that everyone knows, and it waits, with its memories and lessons, to come alive again.”
Upcoming events
Marietta is making dates for Leaving 1203 book talks in 2025. From early springtime at the public library in Scottsville, Virginia to…. What really matters after all doesn’t change—relationship, gratitude, humor, generosity, sacrifice. Let’s remember. Here’s to compassion and joy.
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Signed copies of Leaving 1203 are available for shipping (or pickup) at Stone Soup Books
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Told with McCarty’s characteristic wisdom, marvel, exuberance, and good will, Leaving 1203 is about navigating that way through. The author draws on all available resources—friends and strangers, food and laughter, life lessons learned in the very house she now empties, and, not least, her newly-inherited West Highland terrier, Billy. McCarty simultaneously learns and deftly teaches the fine arts of remembering, letting go, and holding on to what matters most. She not only finds the way through, she shows the way.
the greatest gift an author could give a reader… lessons of a universally philosophical and existential kind… a touching journey… a welcome, upbeat ride
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