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From National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson comes a mesmerizing, decades-spanning saga of one ordinary American family?proud, flawed, hopeful? whose story simultaneously captures the turbulent history of the country at large. Over the course of a thirty-year career, Jean Thompson has been celebrated by critics as "a writer of extraordinary intelligence and sensitivity" (O, The Oprah Magazine), "an American Alice Munro" (The Wall Street Journal), and "one of our most lucid and insightful writers" (San Francisco Chronicle). Her peers have been no less vocal, from Jennifer Egan ("bracing . . . boldly unconventional") to David Sedaris ("if there are 'Jean Thompson characters,' they're us, and never have we been as articulate and worthy of compassion"). Now, in The Year We Left Home, Thompson brings together all of her talents to deliver the career-defining novel her admirers have been waiting for: a sweeping and emotionally powerful story of a single American family during the tumultuous final decades of the twentieth century. It 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

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Author

Jean Thompson

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Paperbacks

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439175880

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.39 / 5 (5,007 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13