Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put On My Pajamas & Found Happiness - Hardcover

Browning, Dominique

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1934633313 ISBN 13: 9781934633311

Publisher: Atlas, 2010

Synopsis

From the beloved author Dominique Browning, a humorous and moving book about losing a job and winning a life.

In November 2007, former editor in chief of House & Garden magazine Dominique Browning experienced what thousands have since experienced. She lost her job. Overnight, her driven, purpose-filled days vanished. With her children leaving home and a long relationship ending, the structure of her days disappeared. She fell into a panic of loss but found humor despite everything, discovering a deeper joy than any she had ever known. It was a life she had not sought, but one that offered pleasures and surprises she didn’t know she lacked.

Slow Love is about wearing your pajamas to the farmers’ market, packing up a beloved home and moving to a more rural setting, making time to play the piano and go kayaking, reinventing yourself, and not cutting corners when it comes to love, muffins, or gardening. This elegant, graceful—and yet funny—book inspires us to dance in the kitchen and seize new directions.

About this title

About the Author:

For over a decade, Dominique Browning was the editor in chief of House & Garden. She is the author of Around the House and in the Garden and lives in New York City and Rhode Island.

Review:

“If you read one book, make it Slow Love ... advice we could all use, regardless of whether we’re gainfully employed!” (Shape Magazine)

“In burnished, exquisite prose, Browning describes her feelings of being set adrift until she gradually transforms her helter-skelter days into a deliberate, contemplative way of life. ... There’s a lovely ‘thinking out loud’ quality to Slow Love that makes the reader privy to Browning’s soul.” (Judy Bolton-Fasman - The Boston Globe)

“Starred Review. There is such feeling and care on each page of Browning's well-honed memoir—her rediscovery of nature, her avowal to let love find her rather than seek it, tapping satisfying work at her own keyboard—that the reader is swept along in a pleasant mood of transcendence.” (Publishers Weekly)

“Not only an elegant and meditative writer but a pungently witty one ... Triumphantly, [Browning] makes the case for slow love achieved, a process she describes as the flip side of nostalgia: the state of 'knowing what you’ve got before it’s gone.'” (Miranda Seymour - The New York Times Book Review)

“There cannot be a person on earth who does not sometimes wonder what the purpose of their life is. Dominique Browning was lucky enough to get fired, so she had time to find out who she was or might be. And we are lucky that she was able to write (often with great humor) about her loss, her loves, her pajamas and ultimately, her return to life.” (Maira Kalman, author and illustrator of The Principles of Uncertainty)

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlas
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1934633313
• ISBN 13: 9781934633311
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250