Housden

(Or, rather, Joanne Livingston Seagull, in which Housden is the one gull bravely taking flight from the cawing, flapping, land-bound Flock Council of disapproving suburban minivan moms.) "And what if it is?" an unsettling voice answered.

The Great Escape 2005

Tissues in hand, I decided that because of her unflinching service to this extraordinary child — and the fact that she has written about the experience with such precision and ultimate optimism (her first, best-selling book, Hannah's Gift, being, in my subsequent estimation, a jewel) — Housden is a mother who deserves a major sabbatical, if not actually carte blanche.

The Great Escape 2005

Tissues in hand, I decided that because of her unflinching service to this extraordinary child — and the fact that she has written about the experience with such precision and ultimate optimism (her first, best-selling book, Hannah's Gift, being, in my subsequent estimation, a jewel) — Housden is a mother who deserves a major sabbatical, if not actually carte blanche.

The Great Escape 2005

The psychological impulse to leave turns out to be rooted in Housden's processing of grief: she had lost her three-year-old daughter Hannah, several years earlier, to cancer.

The Great Escape 2005

The psychological impulse to leave turns out to be rooted in Housden's processing of grief: she had lost her three-year-old daughter Hannah, several years earlier, to cancer.

The Great Escape 2005

Then there's the Fair Haven, New Jersey, split-level Colonial that Housden is fleeing, which recalls the 1950s ones long ago dissed by Betty Friedan.

The Great Escape 2005

Then there's the Fair Haven, New Jersey, split-level Colonial that Housden is fleeing, which recalls the 1950s ones long ago dissed by Betty Friedan.

The Great Escape 2005

Tissues in hand, I decided that because of her unflinching service to this extraordinary child — and the fact that she has written about the experience with such precision and ultimate optimism (her first, best-selling book, Hannah's Gift, being, in my subsequent estimation, a jewel) — Housden is a mother who deserves a major sabbatical, if not actually carte blanche.

The Great Escape 2005

The psychological impulse to leave turns out to be rooted in Housden's processing of grief: she had lost her three-year-old daughter Hannah, several years earlier, to cancer.

The Great Escape 2005

Then there's the Fair Haven, New Jersey, split-level Colonial that Housden is fleeing, which recalls the 1950s ones long ago dissed by Betty Friedan.

The Great Escape 2005