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Buy Leaving Home: Short Pieces (Kindle Single) Reviews
Leaving Home: Short Pieces (Kindle Single)
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 non-fiction 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. (43 pages)
Jodi Picoult has the remarkable ability to portray an event’s key moments and feelings in a potent narration that tugs at the heartstrings. Leaving Home‘s three emotionally charged stories deal with a gamut of pain, regret, unconditional love, memory, motherhood, and friendship that the author renders almost palpably. Fans will find that Leaving Home offers another shining example of Picoult’s skill as a storyteller. Those new to her work will find this a magnificent introduction. –Shirley Hong
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Oxford Girl (Kindle Single)
Plum Sykes always dreamed of going to Oxford as a young girl. When she arrived (wearing a black lycra mini-skirt, in 1988) she was plunged into a world of punting and Pimms, snobs and suicide attempts. Sykes’ mini-memoir of her first term at the famed university is as comical as it is touching. Think Mean Girls meets Brideshead Revisited.Plum Sykes doesn’t stray far from her inside stories about the social elite in Oxford Girl. In fact, this short narrative could serve as the prequel to her bestselling novels Bergdorf Blondes and The Debutante Divorcee–life in England before arriving in the Big Apple, and before arriving at all. Sykes spent her teen years dreaming of herself at the hallowed institution, Oxford. That’s because she coveted not only an education, but also the chance to befriend the rich, the powerful, and the lookists–and to meet her real-life Lord Sebastian Flyte, the fictitious aristocrat in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. Before us, she transforms from awkward child to graceful debutante to college party girl, and you really can’t help but feel as though you’re right alongside her the whole time.–Shirley Hong
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