New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - The tenth book by this MacArthur prize-winning sociologist, who is the first African-American woman in Harvard's history to have an endowed professorship named in her honor. A book which explores the ways in which we leave one thing and move on to another, from long farewells to quick goodbyes and sudden endings, both ordinary and extraordinary. Notes, selected sources. 259 pp. ISBN: 978-0374151195.