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Out of My Shoes
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Meredith Stout
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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Summary
A multi-layered memoir of transformation, Out of My Shoes weaves together events from the life of the narrator who grew up during the 1940s and '50s in a sheltered Southern California environment. While attending Vassar College, Meredith marries an Ivy League graduate from a wealthy New York family. They move to Berkeley, where she becomes a traditional faculty wife and mother. Eventually, troubled by her life of privilege, she leaves her marriage to pursue her interests in photography, writing, and social activism. When she meets Jayda, a formerly homeless African-American woman poet, their complex relationship, with its racial and sensual tensions, is at the heart of this mid-life creative awakening. Issues of class and race are intertwined in compelling stories, both poignant and humorous, as the narrator struggles to find a new identity.
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