Description
When Will’s father dies by suicide, grief hardens into a quiet, private struggle that threatens to swallow him whole. In the aftermath, he chooses a different kind of healing—secretly reaching out to the people around him through small, deliberate acts of kindness that accumulate into something larger than he expected. Told in a distinctive structure of one hundred brief chapters, the novel traces how compassion can become a language for survival, and how community can offer a way back from despair. With lyrical restraint and emotional clarity, this story explores loss, resilience, and the enduring question of what we leave behind—both in pain and in love.
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paperback
Atheneum
Published Jan 1, 2018
202 pages
ISBN: 9781481476560
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First Published
2018
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for What I Leave Behind by Alison McGhee.