Leaving: A Novel
By Richard Dry
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By Richard Dry
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Winner of the Joseph Henry Jackson Award
Pushcart Editors' Prize Nominee
In 1959, newly-widowed and pregnant Ruby Washington and her thirteen-year-old half brother, Easton, board a bus in rural South Carolina, destined for Oakland, California. There, far from the violent events that forced her to flee her home, Ruby hopes to make a new life for her family.
Ruby gives birth to a daughter, Lida, and strives to raise the girl and Easton. But as their Oakland neighborhood changes during the turbu...






















