About the book: 'What does love demand of us, and who must pay the price?’
High school sweethearts, Sarah and Warren, have grand plans for an adventurous future together, but when a misunderstanding causes them to part ways, they end up marrying other people.
When they meet again at sixty, their lives have been carved into very different shapes. Sarah lives outside New York; Warren lives in Boston. Sarah is divorced, Warren still married, and both have grown up children.
When they reconnect, they feel the rekindled spark of love and desire – a spark that has been dead for so long.
But are they willing to risk destroying all that they have built separately for the chance of a future together?
Leaving (2024) charts a passage through loyalty and desire as it builds to a shattering conclusion. In her boldest and most powerful work to date, Roxana Robinson demonstrates her “trademark gifts as an intelligent, sensitive analyst of family life” (Wendy Smith, Chicago Tribune) in 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.
About the author: Roxana Robinson is the award-winning author of seven novels, three collections of short stories and a biography of Georgia O'Keeffe. Her books have been chosen as New York Times Notable Books and as New York Times Editors' Choices. Her books have been published in England, France, Germany, Holland and Spain. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of many awards, including the Barnes & Noble "Writers for Writers" Award.
Roxana Robinson has received fellowships from the National Education Association, the MacDowell Colony, and the Guggenheim Foundation and she was named a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library. Robinson has served on the Boards of PEN and the Authors Guild, and was the president of the Authors Guild from 2013 to 2017. She teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College. She lives in New York City and Connecticut and spends as much time as she can in Maine.
Rating: 3/5
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