num_pages: 256
description: Noah York is a closeted gay teenager with a foul mouth, a critical disposition, and plenty of material for his tirades. After his father dies, Noah's mother, a temperamental poet, takes a teaching job in a small New Hampshire town, far from Chicago and the only world Noah has known. While Noah gets along reasonably with his mother, the crumbling house they try to renovate quickly reveals dark secrets, via dusty Mason jars they discover interred between walls. The jars contain scraps of letters, poems, and journal entries, and eventually reconstructs a history of pain and violence that drives a sudden wedge between Noah and his mother. Fortunately, Noah finds an unexpected ally in J.D., a teenager down the street who has family troubles of his own.
language: English
title: Leave Myself Behind
titlecomplete: Leave Myself Behind
genres: LGBT, Gay, Coming Of Age, Gay Fiction, Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, M M Romance, Queer
ratings_count: 2599
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: ALA Alex Award
publisher: Kensington