Gap Year

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By Lindsey Goldstein ’97

Published March 23, 2026

Jane, an ecologist, always dreamed of working in the Galapagos and climbing a volcano, but never got the chance before getting married and having a child, so the years slipped away. The opportunity is presented to her again once her child leaves for a year-long study abroad program and her husband leaves her for another woman. Jane decides to chase her dream and push herself outside her comfort zone. Gap Year (Egret Lake Books) is a novel of reinvention that shows it’s never too late to change your life around. 

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