In the world of Kate Taylor, heroine of Rules for Saying Goodbye, pleasure and melancholy are close neighbors--like the summer hats and lobster boilers squashed together in the tiny closet of her Manhattan apartment. In this hilarious, bittersweet story, we follow young Kate from her girlhood in Fresno California, through a career at a chilly New England prep school, and on to life in Manhattan, where she finds a sometimes dissipated, sometimes glamorous life of fourteen-dollar cocktails, empty cupboards, and extravagantly unsuitable men. 
In this witty and affecting debut, the real-life Katherine Taylor chronicles the moment when you stop waiting for things to happen, and go in search of them yourself.

Rules for Saying Goodbye: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Taylor, Katherine

United States

Picador

Rules For Saying Goodbye

Literary

Sceptre

Rules for Saying Goodbye

Contemporary

“Kath is curious,” observes her younger brother, Ethan, not without anxiety. She is thirteen; already everyone can see she’s got her eye on bigger things than provincial Fresno can offer. Years in the glamorous chill of an East Coast prep school will introduce her to a razor-sharp sense of social distinction, cocaine “so good it’s pink,” and an indispensable best friend—all that she needs to prepare for life in Manhattan. There will be fourteen-dollar cocktails but no money for groceries; unsuitable men of enormous charm, and unsuitable jobs of no charm at all; and a wistful yearning for a transformation from someone of promise into someone of genius. In this deliciously witty and affecting debut novel, fiction winks at real life: Katherine Taylor is its muddled heroine, and also its author. Written in the tradition of Curtis Sittenfeld and Melissa Bank, with the gorgeous hues of a pile of Gatsby’s shirts, Rules for Saying Goodbye is a bittersweet yet comic coming-of-age tale that has an unerring feel for the delights and malaises of a generation.

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Ingrid Palamede never returns to the places she's lived. For her, "whole neighborhoods, whole cities, can be ruined by the reasons you left." But when a breakup leaves her heartbroken and homeless, she's forced to return to her childhood home of Fresno, California. Back in the real wine country, where grapes are grown for mass producers, Ingrid must confront her aging parents and their financial woes, soured friendships, and the blissfully bad decisions she made in her past. But along the way she unearths her love for the land, her talent for harvesting grapes, and a deep fondness for and forgiveness of the very first place she ever left.
With all the sharp-tongued wit of her first novel, Rules for Saying Goodbye, Katherine Taylor examines high-class small-town life among the grapes-on the vine or soaked in vodka-in Valley Fever, a blisteringly funny, ferociously intelligent, and deeply moving novel of self-discovery.

Valley Fever: A Novel

Looking to Learn, an exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, challenges the decontextualized approach to images and learning by setting ritual, functional, and intentionally aesthetic objects side by side, together with inventories, technical viewing devices, photographs of ceremonial practices deploying the objects, printed materials representing them, and records and fragments of some of the environments to which they have belonged. The resulting installations probed the ways in which objects, artifacts, and images have been collected, deployed, and exhibited in teaching, research, and self-representation from the earliest days at the University.

Looking to Learn: Visual Pedagogy at The University of Chicago

Arts & Photography

Seidel, Linda

History & Criticism

Smart Museum Of Art, The University Of C

It's tough being a young pirate on the high seas! When life is chaotic, it's important to know how to express your feelings in a healthy way. That's the central message of "Pirates Have Feelings, Too!," a special story that can be used to help kids ages 3-6+ have safe discussions about their emotions, especially in situations pertaining to family issues. We often forget how strongly a parent's addiction or mental health issues can affect young children. "Pirates Have Feelings, Too!" jumps right into the choppy water of these tumultuous circumstances and helps children navigate their ships toward smoother sailing.

Pirates Have Feelings, Too!

Children's Books

McKenzie, Anna

Action & Adventure

Heroes in Recovery

Ingrid Palamede never returns to the places she’s lived. For her, “whole neighborhoods, whole cities, can be ruined by the reasons you left.” But when a breakup leaves her heartbroken and homeless, she’s forced to return to her childhood home of Fresno, California. Back in the real wine country, where grapes are grown for mass producers, Ingrid must confront her aging parents and their financial woes, soured friendships, and the blissfully bad decisions she made in her past. But along the way, she unearths her love for the land, her talent for harvesting grapes, and a deep fondness for and forgiveness of the very first place she ever left.
“An elegant, restrained stylist” (The New York Times Book Review), Katherine Taylor turns her keen eye to high-class, small-town life among the grapes―on the vine, or soaked in vodka―in this blisteringly funny, ferociously intelligent, and deeply moving novel of self-discovery.

Toronto: City of Commerce 1800-1960: Stories of a city’s factories, businesses and storefronts

Business & Money

Economics

Lorimer

Do you want more moments of awe and wonder in your classroom? Do you want to harness the amazing power of storytelling? Is your class ready for sensational, experiential, reflective RE? This book gives you the opportunity to embrace reflective storytelling as a tool to deliver all of this and more...it contains one story from Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and non-religious worldview; including a list of the materials you will need, what to say and what to do. It's a one-stop shop for beginning the journey of mastering reflective storytelling and developing more wonderful, engaging RE. "A brilliant book for RE experts or novices alike, bringing stories from many worldviews to life in such a spiritual and engaging way is a must for every RE classroom." Laura Harris, RE Lead, St.Andrews Primary, Congresbury, Bristol, LTLRE Hub Primary Leader and NATRE South West Regional Ambassador "Katherine takes us out of the classroom to another plane altogether, simply with the power of her storytelling, now we can all have a go at using this engaging technique. Her book deserves to be used in all schools, it's the perfect medium by which key faith stories can be introduced to children and quite frankly, we all need some Time To Wonder!" Sharon Lord, RE Lead, Link Academy Trust, Devon &#65279; "Stories create community, enable us to see through the eyes of other people, and open us to the claims of others." Peter Forbes, Photographer and Author

The Time to Wonder: Getting to the Heart and Soul of RE

Religion & Spirituality

Forward Thinking Publishing

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