Leaving
Subtitle: A Novel
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: March 19, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780312283315
Subjects: American First Novelists; Fiction - General; Fiction; General; Fiction / General; Literary; African American families; Domestic fiction; Historical fiction; Oakland (Calif.)
First sentence: ON JUNE 19, 1959, Ruby Washington traveled through Texas on a bus from Norma, South Carolina, to Oakland, California, with her thirteen-year-old half brother, Love Easton Childers.