Publisher Description
Brittani Sonnenberg's "emotionally charged" (Real Simple) debut novel following a family's search for home abroad is now in paperback. Chris Kriegstein is a man on the move, with a career that catapults his family across the globe. For his wife, Elise, the hardship of chronic relocation is soothed by the allure of reinvention. But it's the Kriegstein daughters, Leah and Sophie, who face the most tumult. With each new move, the girls find they can count on only one thing: the consoling, confounding presence of each other. When the family suffers an unimaginable loss, they can't help but wonder: Was it meant to be, or did one decision change their lives forever? Called "stark but sweet, warm and wise" by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, HOME LEAVE chases this wildly loveable family through the excitement and anguish of their journeys around the world.
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“The lucidity of Sonnenberg's prose…is notable for its stark
honesty and sharply observed details…[An] ambitious debut.”
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Kirkus Reviews
About Brittani Sonnenberg
Brittani Sonnenberg
was raised across three continents and has worked as a journalist in Germany,
China, and throughout Southeast Asia. A graduate of Harvard, she received her
MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan. Her fiction has been published in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 as
well as Ploughshares, Short Fiction, and
Asymptote. Her nonfiction has
appeared in Time, Associated Press, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NPR Berlin.
She has taught creative writing at the University of Michigan, Carleton
College, and the University of Hong Kong. She is currently based in Berlin.
About Leslie Bellair
Leslie Bellair is a voice-over artist, stage and film actor, trained singer, and certified speech-language pathologist. Her voice can be heard on the iPhone application “Diss Crazy!,” the online game “Back to the Cubeture 2,” various audio books published for Audible, Inc., Carina Press, and Oxford Press, as well as the short animated Christmas movie An Elf’s Story. Her professional musical theater work in the Atlanta area has greatly contributed to the characterizations and versatility she brings to the voice-over mic.