Showing The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson

Paperback. Pub Date: 2012 Pages: 352 Publisher: Simon & Schuster From National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson comes a Mesmerizing decades-spanning saga of one ordinary American family-proud. Flawed. Hopeful-whose story simultaneously captures the turbulent history of the country at large. Over the course of a thirty-year career. Jean Thompson has been celeated by critics as a writer of extraordinary intelligence and sensitivity (O. The Oprah Magazine). an American Alice Munro ( The Wall Street Journal). and one of our most lucid and insightful writers (San Francisco Chronicle). Her peers have been no less vocal. from Jennifer Egan (acing ... boldly unconventional) to David Sedaris (if there are 'Jean Thompson characters.' they're us. and never have we been as articulate and worthy of compassion ). Now. in The Year We Left Home. Thompson ings together all of her talents to...