The Journals of Meghan McDonnell Series

Minor is the first installment of the personal journals in which, for 30 years, writer Meghan McDonnell has intimately chronicled her life beginning at age eight through present day. With searing candor and tenderness, her musings on daily experiences and observations of family, social and romantic relationships, and the interior life coalesce in a commentary on facing passion and fear, embracing the light and dark, and American life in the 21st century. Wide in scope and vivid and provocative in detail, her journals are her confessional love letter to the world. Join her on a fearless, vulnerable, profoundly surprising, sometimes painful and quixotic, but always honest journey, also known as the human experience.

In Elsewhere: Volume Four of this addictive and vicarious real-life series, McDonnell visits New York and London, walks away from her first love, begins her foray into acting, wades through family friction and goes back to college. For over 30 years, McDonnell has intimately chronicled her life beginning at age eight through present day. With searing candor and tenderness, her musings on daily experiences and observations of family, social and romantic relationships, and the interior life coalesce in a commentary on facing passion and fear, embracing the light and dark, and American life in the 21st century. Wide in scope and vivid and provocative in detail, her journals are her confessional love letter to the world. Join her on a fearless, vulnerable, profoundly surprising, sometimes painful and quixotic, but always honest journey, also known as the human experience. Readers who love Joan Didion or Cheryl Strayed will enjoy this author.

Faithful: Volume Five in this addictive and vicarious real-life series covers McDonnell's third year in college, traveling, working in a diner and lounge, and explorations into rape, September 11, family, friendship, alcoholism, depression, mental illness, and the meaning of life. For over 30 years, McDonnell has intimately chronicled her life beginning at age eight through present day. With searing candor and tenderness, her musings on daily experiences and observations of family, social and romantic relationships, and the interior life coalesce in a commentary on facing passion and fear, embracing the light and dark, and American life in the 21st century. Wide in scope and vivid and provocative in detail, her journals are her confessional love letter to the world. Join her on a fearless, vulnerable, profoundly surprising, sometimes painful and quixotic, but always honest journey, also known as the human experience. Readers who love Joan Didion or Cheryl Strayed will enjoy this author.

Limbo: Volume Three of this addictive and vicarious series spans Meghan McDonnell's search for identity, grappling with life choices and heart ache, and plans for travel to Europe. For over 30 years, McDonnell has intimately chronicled her life beginning at age eight through present day. With searing candor and tenderness, her musings on daily experiences and observations of family, social and romantic relationships, and the interior life coalesce in a commentary on facing passion and fear, embracing the light and dark, and American life in the 21st century. Wide in scope and vivid and provocative in detail, her journals are her confessional love letter to the world. Join her on a fearless, vulnerable, profoundly surprising, sometimes painful and quixotic, but always honest journey, also known as the human experience. Readers who love Joan Didion or Cheryl Strayed will enjoy this author.

Novice: Volume Two of this addictive and vicarious real-life series spans Meghan McDonnell's freshman year of college, first love, a trip to Australia, and navigating young adulthood, and living on her own among peers. For over 30 years, McDonnell has intimately chronicled her life beginning at age eight through present day. With searing candor and tenderness, her musings on daily experiences and observations of family, social and romantic relationships, and the interior life coalesce in a commentary on facing passion and fear, embracing the light and dark, and American life in the 21st century. Wide in scope and vivid and provocative in detail, her journals are her confessional love letter to the world. Join her on a fearless, vulnerable, profoundly surprising, sometimes painful and quixotic, but always honest journey, also known as the human experience. Readers who love Joan Didion or Cheryl Strayed will enjoy this author.

In Onward: Volume Seven of this addictive and vicarious real-life series, McDonnell gets married in Las Vegas, copes with the unexpected death of a significant person in her life, supports her best friend through pregnancy and childbirth, and continues to reflect on family, friends, sense of place, and identity.  For over 30 years, McDonnell has intimately chronicled her life beginning at age eight through present day. With searing candor and tenderness, her musings on daily experiences and observations of family, social and romantic relationships, and the interior life coalesce in a commentary on facing passion and fear, embracing the light and dark, and American life in the 21st century. Wide in scope and vivid and provocative in detail, her journals are her confessional love letter to the world. Join her on a fearless, vulnerable, profoundly surprising, sometimes painful and quixotic, but always honest journey, also known as the human experience. Readers who love Joan Didion or Cheryl Strayed will enjoy this author.

In Vespers: Volume Six in this addictive and vicarious real-life series, McDonnell contends with a boyfriend in spiritual crisis, college, working in a bar, a trip to New York, and reflections on relationships with family and friends. For over 30 years, McDonnell has intimately chronicled her life beginning at age eight through present day. With searing candor and tenderness, her musings on daily experiences and observations of family, social and romantic relationships, and the interior life coalesce in a commentary on facing passion and fear, embracing the light and dark, and American life in the 21st century. Wide in scope and vivid and provocative in detail, her journals are her confessional love letter to the world. Join her on a fearless, vulnerable, profoundly surprising, sometimes painful and quixotic, but always honest journey, also known as the human experience. Readers who love Joan Didion or Cheryl Strayed will enjoy this author.

In Sojourn: Volume Eight of this existential and addictive real-life series, McDonnell travels to Western Europe for two months, loses a close family friend, and grapples with the meaning of creativity and life purpose. This is a deep dive in to the nature of existence, physicality, addiction, and redemption. For over 30 years, McDonnell has intimately chronicled her life beginning at age eight through present day. With searing candor and tenderness, her musings on daily experiences and observations of family, social and romantic relationships, and the interior life coalesce in a commentary on facing passion and fear, embracing the light and dark, and American life in the 21st century. Wide in scope and vivid and provocative in detail, her journals are her confessional love letter to the world. Join her on a fearless, vulnerable, profoundly surprising, sometimes painful and quixotic, but always honest journey, also known as the human experience. Readers who love Joan Didion or Cheryl Strayed will enjoy this author.

Ingresss: Volume Nine includes Meghan McDonnell's move back to her hometown of Seattle, an elusive search for satisfying work, feeling adrift in her marriage, acting classes, and contending with fractious friendships. For over 30 years, McDonnell has intimately chronicled her life beginning at age eight through present day. With searing candor and tenderness, her musings on daily experiences and observations of family, social and romantic relationships, and the interior life coalesce in a commentary on facing passion and fear, embracing the light and dark, and American life in the 21st century. Wide in scope and vivid and provocative in detail, her journals are her confessional love letter to the world. Join her on a fearless, vulnerable, profoundly surprising, sometimes painful and quixotic, but always honest journey, also known as the human experience. Readers who love Joan Didion or Cheryl Strayed will enjoy this author.

Do you wonder if anyone gets you? Do you feel alone in your thoughts? Do you ever wonder if someone truly understands? Meghan McDonnell has your back. With searing candor, McDonnell distills daily life with uncommon humor and honesty. In brilliant, lyrical prose she brings insight and illumination to family, friendship, romantic entanglements, ambition, love, redemption, and identity to reveal a glimpse of the universal. Her powerful observations and deeply personal feelings about the human experience, struggles and transcendence included, reveal a courageous woman holding up a light for you in the thick of life as it happens. Discover your interior self. Surprise yourself by unlocking your life within through yielding to the vulnerability of another voice, one that may sound startling like your own. Listless: Volume Eleven of this addictive and vicarious real-life series finds Meghan McDonnell at home in Seattle, travelling to Dallas and Santiago, navigating tenuous relationships, and seeking the meaning of work and money. Join her on a wild ride through her soul as she beats back anxiety and depression with ballet, Pilates, and acting classes; revels in music; and criticizes Crispin Glover, among other famous people.

Do you wonder if anyone gets you? Do you feel alone in your thoughts? Do you ever wonder if someone truly understands? Meghan McDonnell has your back. With searing candor, McDonnell distills daily life with uncommon humor and honesty. In brilliant, lyrical prose she brings insight and illumination to family, friendship, romantic entanglements, ambition, love, redemption, and identity to reveal a glimpse of the universal. Her powerful observations and deeply personal feelings about the human experience, struggles and transcendence included, reveal a courageous woman holding up a light for you in the thick of life as it happens. Discover your interior self. Surprise yourself by unlocking your life within through yielding to the vulnerability of another voice, one that may sound startling like your own.

In Bearings: Volume Fourteen, Meghan McDonnell navigates life in Los Angeles: marriage, acting classes and auditions, and unfulfilling day jobs. She grapples with depression and ruminates about identity and class and finding her place in the world. With searing candor, McDonnell distills daily life with uncommon humor and honesty. In brilliant, lyrical prose she brings depth and illumination to themes of family, friendship, ambition, love, redemption, and identity to reveal a detailed glimpse of the universal. Her powerful observations and deeply felt insights about the human condition, struggles and transcendence included, reveal a courageous woman holding up a light in the thick of life as it happens. Discover your interior self. Surprise yourself by unlocking your life within through yielding to the vulnerability of another voice, one that may sound startling like your own.

In Falter: Volume Twelve of this addictive and vicarious real-life series, McDonnell struggles with regret over past choices, finds solace in nature, chooses to leave the Pacific Northwest to act in Los Angeles, reveals too much of her inner life to friends and family, and ponders cultural gems from Team America to W. Somerset Maugham and Confessional poets.In Falter: Volume Twelve of this addictive and vicarious real-life series, McDonnell struggles with regret over past choices, finds solace in nature, chooses to leave the Pacific Northwest to act in Los Angeles, reveals too much of her inner life to friends and family, and ponders cultural gems from Team America to W. Somerset Maugham and Confessional poets. With searing candor, McDonnell distills daily life with uncommon humor and honesty. In brilliant, lyrical prose she brings depth and illumination to themes of family, friendship, ambition, love, redemption, and identity to reveal a detailed glimpse of the universal. Her powerful observations and deeply felt insights about the human condition, struggles and transcendence included, reveal a courageous woman holding up a light in the thick of life as it happens. Discover your interior self. Surprise yourself by unlocking your life within through yielding to the vulnerability of another voice, one that may sound startling like your own.

In Amateur: Volume Thirteen, Meghan McDonnell moves to Los Angeles with her husband to pursue an acting career. She muses on identity and sense of place while waiting tables and taking classes, seeking to understand LA with its mythic promises and gritty realities. Along the way, she meets fellow actors, observes the implications of culture and class systems, skinny dips in the Pacific Ocean on a rainy night with strangers, and experiences the rush and heartache of following an uncertain path. With searing candor, McDonnell distills daily life with uncommon humor and honesty. In brilliant, lyrical prose she brings depth and illumination to themes of family, friendship, ambition, love, redemption, and identity to reveal a detailed glimpse of the universal. Her powerful observations and deeply felt insights about the human condition, struggles and transcendence included, reveal a courageous woman holding up a light in the thick of life as it happens. Discover your interior self. Surprise yourself by unlocking your life within through yielding to the vulnerability of another voice, one that may sound startling like your own.

In Acolyte: Volume Fifteen, Meghan McDonnell lives in Los Angeles, flying home to Seattle frequently to see family and witness her friends' weddings. She takes acting classes and auditions for plays and films while working unfulfilling day jobs. She discovers self-help books and dives into affirmations while seeking philosophical and spiritual understanding and reflects on personal relationships. With searing candor, McDonnell distills daily life with uncommon humor and honesty. In brilliant, lyrical prose she brings depth and illumination to themes of family, friendship, ambition, love, redemption, and identity to reveal a detailed glimpse of the universal. Her powerful observations and deeply felt insights about the human condition, struggles and transcendence included, reveal a courageous woman holding up a light in the thick of life as it happens. Discover your interior self. Surprise yourself by unlocking your life within through yielding to the vulnerability of another voice, one that may sound startling like your own.

In Believer: Volume Sixteen, Meghan McDonnell flies to France for a wedding and travel. She continues acting classes and auditioning while working unfulfilling day jobs. She reads and keeps writing, intent to unravel the mysteries of life and herself. With searing candor, McDonnell distills daily life with uncommon humor and honesty. In brilliant, lyrical prose she brings depth and illumination to themes of family, friendship, ambition, love, redemption, and identity to reveal a detailed glimpse of the universal. Her powerful observations and deeply felt insights about the human condition, struggles and transcendence included, reveal a courageous woman holding up a light in the thick of life as it happens.