The Freedom in Leaving

If any of this sounds like you

It’s for the person who’s sick and tired of being sick and tired. For the person vibrating at the low hum of life in a country where they have to embrace code-switching just to survive the micro and macro aggressions of racism and homophobia.

It’s for anyone burned out from the exhaustion of always being on guard, while battling a high cost of living, inflation, and the ever-present fear of not having enough to retire with dignity.

It’s for the person tired of gun violence everywhere across America, from shopping malls to schools to churches to grocery stores. Trapped living under weak and perverse politicians who are absolutely determined to loosen gun laws and let the carnage continue, rather than strengthen them. It’s for the person tired of watching federally mandated water, air, and food regulations being rolled back, further sickening the nation, all in the name of capitalism. Or for federally protected lands being drilled upon or converted for private and commercial use, taken out of the shared enjoyment and use of the people.

This book is for those mortified at how the Voting Rights Act has been deliberately and systematically dismantled. How pre-clearance, which allowed the federal government to stop states from changing election laws or procedures without federal court approval, has now been done away with. How gerrymandering has massively weakened Black voting power and congressional districts based on the geography of where people live. This has now ensured that, going forward, little to no Black representation at the federal, state, county, city, and local levels will occur. So this book is for those sick and frustrated at how the majority race wields its power, inherently believing it should lead this nation in all aspects of life, everyone else be damned.

And this book is for those who believe a woman should have control of her own body, and not be imprisoned for having a miscarriage or forced to risk dying by carrying a dead fetus to term. It’s also for those frightened of being arrested for driving a woman across state lines, or buying her a plane ticket to see a doctor, in order to reclaim her bodily autonomy or even to receive birth control pills. All of this is reality in America in 2026.

Further, this book is for the person angered, sickened, and tired by how education is being cheapened. By how history is being rewritten, removing historical Black, Latino, Asian, women, and LGBT figures from the narrative, while restoring the monuments, statues, and names of un-American traitors of the Civil War.

And it’s for those sick and tired of billionaires and their companies planting mega data centers into urban, suburban, and rural America, destroying the environment with sound, light, and water pollution, and disorienting wildlife. All of it done with the gleeful approval of local, county, and state officials.

And this book is for the person who never thought about living in another country, but also for the person who has always pondered it. It’s for the person who sees those online influencers living their best lives, globetrotting across the world, and thinks to themselves, “I could never do that,” or “I wish I could do that, but…” and then fills in the obstacle.

Finally, this is a book of both Affirmation and Confirmation. It affirms that yes, what you’re feeling is indeed real and valid. And it also confirms that yes, you can do this. You can thrive, live comfortably, and find peace in another country of your choosing.