{"product_id":"the-year-we-left-home-paperback","title":"The Year We Left Home - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA New York Times bestseller, The Year We Left Home is National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson's mesmerizing, decades-spanning saga of one ordinary American family that captures the turbulent history of the country at large.Named a New York Times Editors' Choice, a People magazine \"Pick of the Week,\" and an Indie Next and Midwest Connections selection, The Year We Left Home is the career-defining novel that Jean Thompson's 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. Stretching from the early 1970s in the Iowa farmlands to suburban Chicago and across the map of contemporary America, The Year We Left Home follows the Erickson siblings as they confront prosperity and heartbreak, setbacks and triumphs, and seek their place in a country whose only constant seems to be breathtaking change. Ambitious and richly told, this is a vivid and moving meditation on our continual pursuit of happiness and an incisive exploration of the national character.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean Thompson is a novelist and short story writer. Her works include the novels \u003ci\u003eA Cloud in the Shape of a Girl, She Poured Out Her Heart, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Humanity Project, The Year We Left Home, City Boy, Wide Blue Yonder, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Driver, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMy Wisdom \u003c\/i\u003eand the short story collections \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWitch and Other Tales Re\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003eTold, Do Not Deny Me, Throw Like a Girl, Who Do\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eYou Love \u003c\/i\u003e(a National Book Award finalist), \u003ci\u003eLittle Face and Other Stories, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Gasoline Wars. \u003c\/i\u003eThompson's short fiction has been published in many magazines and journals, including the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003e and anthologized in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Pushcart\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePrize. \u003c\/i\u003eThompson has been the recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, among other accolades, and has taught creative writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Reed College, Northwestern University, and other colleges and universities. She lives in Urbana, Illinois.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 07, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666272215084,"sku":"9781439175903","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0728\/0954\/5772\/files\/O-MP8Heapc9781439175903.webp?v=1781625309","url":"https:\/\/smartsupplydeals.com\/products\/the-year-we-left-home-paperback","provider":"Smart supply deals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}