Leaving Home brings together three previously published short pieces,
each dealing with a variation on the theme of leaving home. The first,
"Weights and Measures," deals with the tragic loss of a child; the
second is a nonfiction letter Picoult wrote to her eldest son as he left
for college; and "Ritz" tells the story of a mother who takes the
vacation all mothers need sometime.
"It is impossible not to be held spellbound by the way she forces us to
think, hard, about right and wrong." --The Washington Post