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Half a million copies sold! The breakout novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan Collector, What She Left Behind weaves together riveting stories of past and present, exploring the strength of women in two different times as they face adversity in two very different ways. Go inside the horrifying walls of a 1920s New York asylum as a wrongly imprisoned woman fights for what is most important to her—and meet the young woman confronting the pain and mystery of her own family's mental illness two generations later. Ten years ago, Izzy Stone's mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother's apparent insanity, Izzy, now seventeen, refuses to visit her in prison. But her new foster parents, employees at the local museum, have enlisted Izzy's help in cataloging items at a long-shuttered state asylum. There, amid piles of abandoned belongings, Izzy discovers a stack of unopened letters, a decades-old journal, and a window into her own past. Young flapper and suffragette Clara Cartwright is caught between her overbearing parents and her desire to be a modern woman. Furious when she rejects an arranged marriage, instead finding love with an It

Who reads What She Left Behind : A Haunting and Heartbreaking Story of 1920s Historical Fiction?

Author

Ellen Marie Wiseman

Publisher

New York, NY: Kensington Books

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781496730039

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller

Rating

3.86 / 5 (23,795 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14