Jodi Picoult

Leaving Home Jodi Picoult

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 non-fiction 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.