About this ebook
Getting a Life is about growing up, getting a grip, giving a damn. And it's about the many people, in most case strangers, who helped the author -- a flawed thirty-something grappling with her own life as a reporter -- finally to understand that there is no happy hearth waiting over some next hill. Home does not come in a bolt from heaven, nor is it some new gimmick on sale down at the mall. It's the way we live in the world every day, the plot of land that, side-by-side with others, we painstakingly tend. America's future depends upon citizens connecting and reclaiming the fundamentals at our nation's heart.
About the author
Leslie Dreyfous first joined The Associated Press in 1984 and was a National Writer from 1990 until 1996. Born and raised in California, she is a graduate of Columbia University and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Over her years reporting for the AP, she covered a variety of feature and breaking news stories that took her from the Arctic to Bosnia to America's tiniest back roads. Her feature stories included two in-depth series: one on Americans' relentless pursuit of individual happiness and another on the equally deep yearning for community, connectedness, and home. Much of the material for this book grew out of the interviews conducted over her months on the road.
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