num_pages: 257
description: An award-winning author makes her fiction debut with this coming-of-age story of three young black children set against the backdrop of the Atlanta child murders of 1979.
language: English
title: Leaving Atlanta
titlecomplete: Leaving Atlanta
genres: Fiction, Historical, Coming Of Age, Audiobook, Novels, Historical Fiction, Southern, Crime, Race, African American
ratings_count: 5478
places: Atlanta, Georgia
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
category: Debut Fiction
publisher: Grand Central Publishing