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Unsettled

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Author

Laurie Woodford
Genre

Nonfiction – Memoir, Nonfiction – Science
Release Date

January 2, 2024
Publisher

Unsolicited Press
Categories , Tag Product ID: 19797
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Description

At the age of forty-nine, driven by an urgent restlessness, Laurie Woodford rents out her house, packs her belongings into two suitcases, and relocates to Asia. What begins as an opportunity to teach college English overseas, evolves into a nomadic adventure as Laurie works and volunteers in South Korea, Ethiopia, Peru, Spain, and Mexico. After four years of traveling, Laurie’s return “home” to the U.S. becomes an unexpected adventure of its own when she ends up in Arkansas and meets Bruce, a bird-loving, bearded Quaker, who challenges her to reconcile her life of fierce independence with her longing to feel settled and loved.

About the Author

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fter my twenty-year career teaching college English in the U.S., South Korea, and China, I’m now a full-time writer with a soft spot for romantic comedy.

During my MFA program (graduated in 2019—a bit later in life, y’all), I wrote my travel memoir, Unsettled, which was a labor of love. While for years I devoted myself to literary writing (I’ve published a bunch of essays and short stories in various literary journals), my heart now belongs to writing romcoms. My romantic comedy, Anita Farleigh Unpacks, will be released early 2024. My hope is that it will crack open readers’ hearts and souls and make their faces hurt (in a good way) from laughing so hard.

I’m originally from upstate New York (Go, Rochester!) and now live in the outskirts of Austin, Texas (and I do love my truck) where I’m beyond lucky to get to spend loads of time with my awesome daughter and son-in-law, my adorable agility dog, and my amazing husband, Bruce, the man of my love story dreams.

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