Home Leave : A Novel (Hardcover)

from HeathMochaFrost

I received an advance reader's copy of Home Leave, the debut novel by Brittani Sonnenberg, through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. Many thanks to LT and to Grand Central Publishing (Hachette Group) for the opportunity to read and review it. Brittani Sonnenberg is a talented writer, and ...

from revliz

Interesting. Lives unspooling across continents. What life is like after a sudden death. This one stayed with me.

from seeword

The Kriegstein family moves all over the world as the father, Chris, follows his career path. Chris is originally from a farm in Indiana. His wife, Elise, is from a small town in Mississippi. Leah, the elder of their daughters, was born in Germany; Sophie, the younger daughter, was born during on...

from Jillian_Kay

When I started this book and realized it was being written from the point of view of a house I almost gave up. I stuck with it, and it did get better as the narrators changed. The story was interesting enough - an expat family has trouble dealing with a loss and feeling grounded in light of not h...

from eraderneely

This book is not what I was expecting. The descriptions of being an expat and how you feel when your spouse leaves on trips for work all the time were really accurate, but ultimately the weird varying narrators (the grandparents, a play, first person, third person, first person plural, a HOUSE) w...