Description
A young couple’s life in Atlanta is upended when a sudden, unjust turn of events forces them apart, testing the bonds of love, loyalty, and identity. As they navigate the distance between what they planned and what reality demands, each character confronts the costs of hope—both personal and systemic—against the backdrop of race, class, and the pressures of a changing city. With Tayari Jones’s lyrical, emotionally precise storytelling, the novel explores how relationships survive (or fracture) under strain, and how resilience can coexist with grief. Leaving Atlanta is a powerful, intimate study of consequence, belonging, and the enduring question of what it means to come back to one another.
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paperback
Grand Central Publishing
Published Aug 1, 2003
272 pages
ISBN: 9780446690898
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First Published
2002
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones.