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Leaving: A Novel

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"Leaving navigates the chasm between responsibility and desire when two long- lost lovers reconnect. This beautiful book will sweep you away." ―People Magazine What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again?“I never thought I’d see you here,” Sarah says. Then she adds, “But I never thought I’d see you anywhere.”Sarah and Warren’s college love story ended in a single moment. Decades later, when a chance meeting brings them together, a passion ignites threatening the foundations of their lives. Since they parted in college, each has married, raised a family, and made a career. When they meet again, Sarah is divorced and living outside New York, while Warren is still married and living in Boston.Seeing Warren sparks an awakening in Sarah, who feels emotionally alive for the first time in decades. Still, she hesitates to reclaim a chance at love after her painful divorce and years of framing her life around her children and her work. Warren has no such reservations: he wants to leave his marriage but fears how his wife and daughter will react. As their affair intensifies, Sarah and Warren must confront the moral responsibilities of their love for their families and each other.An engrossing exploration of the vows we make to one another, the tensile relationships between parents and their children, and what we owe to others and ourselves, “Leaving is a tour de force―unfailingly clear-eyed, and its final impact shatters." (Washington Post) Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company (February 13, 2024)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 344 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1324065389


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 88


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.17 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 1.2 x 9.3 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #26,437 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #676 in Family Life Fiction (Books) #1,886 in Literary Fiction (Books)


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Top Amazon Reviews

    • Hauntingly Magnificent
LEAVING is a novel not to be missed. Brilliant and devastating. Provocative and haunting. Go buy this book. Keep it forever as you will want to reread it each year. I know I will. With prose as seamless as wind, each page is nothing short of a gift. A perfect book for a discussion among friends and strangers. Stunningly wonderful! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2024 by Julie F. Maloney
    • Reflective
Although a well written novel, I found the story quite depressing. I’m sure many that read this will reflect on their own lives and wonder how they may react to the same situations. I was hoping the ending would have been uplifting. Also, the subtle political jabs I could have done without. I would read another novel by this author. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2024 by Mary D
    • Powerful
This book deals with love and family in meaningful ways that I've never seen before. I was particularly drawn to the exploration of parents' relationships to their adult children and the bittersweet blessing of being let go as those children move into their own adulthood where parents are,intentionally or not, made to feel superfluous. The central love affair is thrilling and ultimately heartbreaking. The last chapter of the book broke my heart. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2024 by DTS santa monica
    • Needs some heavy editing
I think there is a pretty good story in here but it needs some heavy editing. The author repeats herself often and that is boring. There are typos (letters dropped and even once or twice a word). The level of detail becomes ponderous, frequently. At least one time the author contradicts herself. The two times in the book where Warren's meeting with Bella is described (a dog) contradict each other. I also wonder who acts this way? Warren and his family are such a mess, okay, some families are messes. But the level of emotional blackmail that Warren puts up with and gives in to is unbelievable (to me). I don't understand why Sarah, an intelligent woman, would pine away for this guy who acted so stupidly, continually letting his daughter dictate his life, who wants him!? And not sure why the wife would take him back, but I suppose there are some women who would. I never got a back story on these people, esp Warren, that would explain their behavior. Finally, I want to say, as a nurse, the comment that nurses are "trained" to "withhold themselves emotionally". As a nurse I must ask; how would such training occur? I've been a nurse for 30 years and I know that most nurses I have met and worked with are compassionate caregivers and put their patients needs above their own. Please don't repeat stereotypes such as this. I will say that I finished the book because I wanted to see how it ended but I had to skip a lot of wordy description in order to get there. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2024 by Marian
    • Loved it, mostly
PRO: Rich characters and wonderful insight into motherhood and family relationships. CON: Political passages that had little to do with the story.
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2024 by OC
    • Excellent
This book was slow in the beginning, but great as it progressed; what a sad ending that I was not expecting.
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2024 by SM
    • Read anything by this amazing author
How is it that Roxanna Robinson finds the spaces between our feelings? She goes right to the hidden heart of things. Read anything and everything by her -- her short stories are amazing, and Cost is the most emotionally on target, perceptive book I've ever read. She takes your breath away. In her new book, Leaving, she again goes to the places others may have ventured, but she mines them until she gets to the core. She reveals, she makes you see and feel. Everything you could ask of good literature. She is a treasure. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2024 by C. harris
    • Was this edited by AI?
Anyone else feel like they were reading an advanced readers copy? Why are there so many editing errors? This book grabbed me for the interesting storyline but lost me with all the numerous inconsistencies. First she keeps changing the daughters profession…it’s “design” then “tech”…then she finally lands on web design…it’s something so minor but it kept throwing me off. Then it’s the main character’s financial situation. She comes from money but didn’t ask for help from family. We’re told her husband never really held down a job and she was a stay at home mom but she’s living in some sort of gated sprawling estate. We’re told she had to count her pennies as a young wife and that her family didn’t leave her much. She’s retired and volunteers at a museum and take trips to London. HOW? There are just so many vagaries. References without any real meaningful details. We’re told she’s not rich but rich compared to most….WHAT DOES THAT MEAN??? I need numbers. This leads me to one of my biggest issues…that poor dog. We are told that she leaves the dog alone overnight with few details on how that’s possible. Then she further explains the dog flap and fenced in yard. But still- HOW? Who leaves a dog alone overnight much less…A WEEK? I had to read that line a few times before my brain could process. Did AI write the book as well? How hard would it be to say a neighborhood kid comes by each day to feed and walk? Person preference but the glaring lack of detail about food felt odd. While in keeping with the wasp aesthetic, it left me dare I say hungry for more. She’s in London with her artist friends, romantic dinners in the city, quiet moments home alone…and all I want to know is what did she eat? Even WASPY forward Pineapple Street hooked you in with food from the first page. Tellingly the only mention of food was in a negative light when Janet forces him to stay and eat her oily stew. Wasn’t there a whole scene about that damn To the Lighthouse stew? Tangles of brown meat and all that? Where is the humanity in this “gaunt” austere bird lady? Lastly, I had to stop reading about midway through when I had to go back and re-read a few paragraphs to make sure I wasn’t losing my mind. She basically writes the same paragraph twice within a few pages of each other. She kept trying to make a point about Warren and Janet on their honeymoon…without actually saying what…Warren feels guilty for talking to the fisherman while Janet was reading …WHY? She mentions Janet would disapprove but why exactly it just doesn’t make sense. She's racist or classist?ok then just come out and SAY IT. The author keeps referencing this as the explanation as to why their marriage was doomed from the beginning. HOW? She just says this same vague idea 3-4 times as if it’s the first time she’s revealing this piece of insight. The cherry on top is when she writes about Janet saying “Once she had declared the France started World War I.” And then in the NEXT paragraph she writes “She thinks France started World War II”. Is Warren gaslighting us? Or is She? I had to read and re-read this 10 times I truly thought I was going nuts. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2024 by Jennifer Shaw

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