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What We Leave Behind

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Availability:In StockContributor:Sue HalpernPublish date:2025-06-24Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780063415386ISBN-10:63415380UPC:9780063415386Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Family Life, WomenSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC4Z0P0MKM

From the author of Summer Hours at the Robbers Library, a tenderhearted story of two very different women grappling with the messy emotional legacies passed down by their parents--for fans of Dani Shapiro, Ann Napolitano, and Jody Picoult.

It's the perennial question: are we a product of how we were raised, or is our identity hardwired by our genetic inheritance? When her adoptive mother dies in a freak accident, high school senior Melody Marcus doubles down on her refusal to learn anything about her birth parents. In this age of 23&me, though, that may not be possible, and the secrets hidden in her DNA threaten to upend everything she knows about herself and her family.

For Candace Milton, a successful woman in her forties, the collateral damage from her parents' tortured marriage has led to a life of intentional unattachment. She is happy--enough. But a chance encounter with a friend of Melody's father will challenge this assumption and force her to reimagine who she is and who she might become.

Big-hearted evocative, and achingly relatable, What We Leave Behind grapples with destiny, belonging, and love, and makes us question our own idea of family: the kind we're born into and the kind we create.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780063415386ISBN-10:63415380UPC:9780063415386Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Family Life, WomenSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC4Z0P0MKM
Halpern, Sue: -

Sue Halpern is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction, most recently Summer Hours at the Robbers Library. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Review of Books, Rolling Stone, and Condé Nast Traveler. A former New Yorker staff writer, she lives Vermont with her husband, the writer and environmental activist Bill McKibben, and is a scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College.

Publisher: Harper Perennial

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Sue Halpern

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