A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, The Year We Left Home is National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson's mesmerizing, decades-spanning saga of one ordinary American family that captures the turbulent history of the country at large.

Named a New York Times Editors' Choice, a People magazine "Pick of the Week," and an Indie Next and Midwest Connections selection, The Year We Left Home is the career-defining novel that Jean Thompson's admirers have been waiting for: a sweeping and emotionally powerful story of a single American family during...

From theNew York Timesbestselling author ofThe Year We Left Home, a dazzling new novel hailed as an instantly addictive...tale of yearning, paradox, and hope. Booklist
After surviving a horrific shooting at her high school, fifteen-year-old Linnea is packed off to live with her estranged father, Art, in California. Art, not much more than a child himself, doesn t quite understand how or why he has suddenly become responsible for raising a sullen and probably deeply damaged adolescent girl. And although Linnea has little interest in her father, she becomes...