Ebook {Epub PDF} The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson

A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, The Year We Left Home is National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson’s mesmerizing, decades-spanning saga of one ordinary American family that captures the turbulent history of the country at large.  · A New York Times bestseller, The Year We Left Home is National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson’s mesmerizing, decades-spanning saga 2/5(49). Book Summary. 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. The Year We Left Home begins in when the Erickson family of Grenada, Iowa, gathers for the wedding of their eldest daughter, Anita.

Jean Thompson is a novelist and short story writer, whose most recent novel is A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl (Simon Schuster). Her other works include the novels She Poured Out Her Heart, The Humanity Project, The Year We Left Home, City Boy, and Wide Blue Yonder, and the short story collections The Witch and Other Tales Re-Told, Do Not Deny Me, Throw Like a Girl, and Who Do You Love, which. The year we left home / Jean Thompson. p. cm. 1. Families—United States—Fiction. 2. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 3. United States—Social life and customs—20th century—Fiction. 4. United States—Social conditions—20th century—Fiction. 5. National characteristics, American—Fiction. I. Title. PSHY43 '—dc A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, The Year We Left Home is National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson's mesmerizing, decades-spanning saga of one ordinary American family that captures the turbulent history of the country at large. Named a New York Times Editors' Choice, a People magazine "Pick of the Week," and an Indie Next and Midwest Connections selection, The Year We Left Home is.

In Thompson's unforgettable, offbeat novel, an extended Iowa family struggles for emotional and economic stability over three decades, beginning with a modest Lutheran wedding in and ending with a bittersweet homecoming. Jean Thompson's mostly pretty great The Year We Left Home spans thirty years of an Iowa family--and, equally important to the story, of an Iowa town, and, by extension, the country as a whole--beginning in and ending in the early aughts. About a third of the way into “The Year We Left Home,” Jean Thompson’s 10th book of fiction, the ­Erickson family of Grenada, Iowa, attends — along with much of the town — the funeral.