The Year We Left Home by Jean Tho mpson is available as a \;print book\, and as a \;downloadable audiobook \;in the library's collection. \;
\nThompson brings together all of her talents to deliver the career-defining novel her admirers have bee n waiting for: a sweeping and emotionally powerful story of a single Ameri can family during the tumultuous final decades of the twentieth century. I t begins in 1973 when the Erickson family of Grenada\, Iowa\, gathers for the wedding of their eldest daughter\, Anita. Even as they celebrate\, the fault lines in the family emerge. The bride wants nothing more than to ra ise a family in her hometown\, while her brother Ryan watches restlessly f rom the sidelines\, planning his escape. He is joined by their cousin Chip \, an unpredictable\, war-damaged loner who will show Ryan both the appeal and the perils of freedom. Torrie\, the Ericksons' youngest daughter\, is another rebel intent on escape\, but the choices she makes will bring abo ut a tragedy that leaves the entire family changed forever.
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