Leave Myself Behind
256 pages
|Published: 1 Mar 2003
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ISBN: 9780758203496
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Kensington
Publication date: 1 April 2004
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.
