{"product_id":"what-we-leave-behind-9780063415386","title":"What We Leave Behind","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the author of \u003cem\u003eSummer Hours at the Robbers Library\u003c\/em\u003e, a tenderhearted story of two very different women grappling with the messy emotional legacies passed down by their parents--for fans of Dani Shapiro, Ann Napolitano, and Jody Picoult.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's the perennial question: are we a product of how we were raised, or is our identity hardwired by our genetic inheritance? When her adoptive mother dies in a freak accident, high school senior Melody Marcus doubles down on her refusal to learn anything about her birth parents. In this age of 23\u0026amp;me, though, that may not be possible, and the secrets hidden in her DNA threaten to upend everything she knows about herself and her family. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Candace Milton, a successful woman in her forties, the collateral damage from her parents' tortured marriage has led to a life of intentional unattachment. She is happy--enough. But a chance encounter with a friend of Melody's father will challenge this assumption and force her to reimagine who she is and who she might become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBig-hearted evocative, and achingly relatable, \u003cem\u003eWhat We Leave Behind\u003c\/em\u003e grapples with destiny, belonging, and love, and makes us question our own idea of family: the kind we're born into and the kind we create. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHalpern, Sue:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSue Halpern\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction, most recently \u003cem\u003eSummer Hours at the Robbers Library.\u003c\/em\u003e Her writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Magazine, \u003c\/em\u003e the \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books, Rolling Stone, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCondé Nast Traveler.\u003c\/em\u003e A former \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e staff writer, she lives Vermont with her husband, the writer and environmental activist Bill McKibben, and is a scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51384562123026,"sku":"9780063415386","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7c4effbf-f267-48f5-9e6b-e4035009eb6b.jpg?v=1750178583","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/what-we-leave-behind-9780063415386","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}