Product Description<br/><br/><br/>Leaving Home brings together three previously published short pieces, each dealing with a variation on the theme of leaving home. The first, “Weights and Measures,” deals with the tragic loss of a child; the second is a nonfiction letter Picoult wrote to her eldest son as he left for college; and “Ritz” tells the story of a mother who takes the vacation all mothers need sometime.<br/>“It is impossible not to be held spellbound by the way she forces us to think, hard, about right and wrong.” ―The Washington Post<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/>Jodi Picoult is the author of sixteen novels, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Change of Heart and Nineteen Minutes. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children.