{"id":9070,"date":"2016-07-12T12:56:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T16:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=9070"},"modified":"2022-12-20T14:02:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T19:02:30","slug":"exit-coach","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/exit-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"The Exit Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 169 pages \u2022 17.95
\nISBN-13: 978-1-935536-80-2<\/p>\n

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The Exit Coach<\/em><\/h1>\n

Megan Staffel<\/h2>\n

How do we find the courage to change?\u00a0 In The Exit Coach<\/em>, a collection of six stories and a novella, the characters arrive at an impasse that requires them to step out of the wreckage of their habituated lives.\u00a0 It is the entrance of an unexpected voice–a visitor from France, a retired talent scout, an invisible friend, a midnight phone call, or even a wild animal–that disrupts their patterns of behavior and illuminates the possibilities they\u2019ve been blind to, pointing the way to an exit they\u2019ve dreamt of, but lacked the courage to enter.<\/p>\n

from “Arrogance,” from\u00a0The Exit Coach<\/em>:<\/p>\n

“I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m eighty-seven,\u201d he whispered. \u201cHow did it happen?\u201d At that time the question seemed irrelevant. Richard\u2019s grandfather might have succumbed to eighty years, but I knew, at age twenty-three, that I would have the strength and better sense to avoid it.
\nThis was not because I thought I would die young, or because my generally pessimistic view of international affairs accepted the probability of a devastating nuclear event; the fact is, I really did believe I would never be older than thirty-six, the age I had once chosen with a friend as the last outpost before the decrepitude neither of us would ever consent to experience.
\nThe problem, now that I’m well past that outpost and others, meaning that I’m a post-puberty, post-fertility, post-everything woman: how does one go forward? What does the baby-making body do now? I remember the hallway. It was painted a soft canary yellow and the little man was so excited to see us. How did it happen, he asked. He knew and I do too. No one can escape time.”
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