Including the Periphery

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.

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