Leaving Home: Short Pieces

Leaving Home brings together three previously published short pieces, each dealing with a variation on the theme of leaving home. The first, €œWeights and Measures,€ deals with the tragic loss of a child; the second is a nonfiction letter Picoult wrote to her eldest son as he left for college; and €œRitz€ tells the story of a mother who takes the vacation all mothers need sometime.

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