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Leave me a novel

A #1 September Library Reads Selection. A September Indie Next Pick. An Amazon Best Book of the Month. A People Pick. Every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner, and every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a pla...

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Main Author: Forman, Gayle (Author)
Format: Downloads eBook Books eBook
Language: English
Published: New York : Algonquin Books, 2016.
Subjects:
Working mothers > Fiction.
Home > Psychological aspects > Fiction.
Self-realization in women > Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) > Fiction.
Heart diseases in women > Fiction.
Runaway wives > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
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Summary: A #1 September Library Reads Selection. A September Indie Next Pick. An Amazon Best Book of the Month. A People Pick. Every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner, and every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a place where no one needs constant attention -- meet Maribeth Klein. A harried working mother who's so busy taking care of her husband and twins, she doesn't even realize she's had a heart attack. Surprised to discover that her recuperation seems to be an imposition on those who rely on her, Maribeth does the unthinkable: she packs a bag and leaves. But, as is often the case, once we get where we're going we see our lives from a different perspective. Far from the demands of family and career and with the help of liberating new friendships, Maribeth is able to own up to secrets she has been keeping from herself and those she loves. With bighearted characters -- husbands, wives, friends, and lovers -- who stumble and trip, grow and forgive, Leave Me is about facing the fears we're all running from. Gayle Forman is a dazzling observer of human nature. She has written an irresistible novel that confronts the ambivalence of modern motherhood head on and asks, what happens when a grown woman runs away from home?
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Audience: Text Difficulty 3 - Text Difficulty 4
UG/Upper grades (9th-12)
5
ISBN: 9781616206482
Author Notes: Gayle Forman is an award-winning, young adult author, who was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1970. Forman began her career as a journalist, writing for Seventeen magazine. Her work has since appeared in publications such as Details, Jane, The Nation, Elle, Cosmopolitan and The New York Times Magazine.

In 2002, she took a trip around the world. The experience helped to form her first book, a travelogue entitled, You Can't Get There from Here: A Year on the Fringes of a Shrinking World, which was published in 2004.

Her first YA fiction was her novel, Sisters in Sanity, which was published in 2007 and based on one of her articles for Seventeen. Her other YA titles include: If I Stay and its companion, Where She Went; Just One Day, and its sequels, Just One Year and Just One Night. In 2015 she made The New York Times Best Seller List with her titles I Was Hereand Where She Went.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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