The Art of Being Betsy is a contemporary literary novel about a woman learning how to love after everything has been stripped away. Once a rising art dealer, Betsy’s career and sense of self collapse into a six-year prison sentence that leaves her severed from family, identity, and dignity. At fifty-three, she returns to her fading hometown of Honey Grove, Texas, accompanied by Plath—the relentless voice of her depression—who argues she’s already lived long enough. When Betsy meets Henry, a painter who has chosen obscurity over acclaim, she begins to understand a different kind of success. Through their connection, Betsy confronts what she’s lost and what she still fears, discovering that love—of another, of art, and finally of herself—can exist without permission, proof, or redemption.