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	Liepman Literary Agency Marc Koralnik
Original language
English

ALL THE THINGS WE LEAVE BEHIND

Riel Nason

ALL THE THINGS WE LEAVE BEHIND is about remembrance and attachment, about what we collect and what we leave behind. In this highly affecting novel, Nason explores the permeability of memory and the sometimes confusing bonds of human emotion.

It is summer, 1977. Seventeen-year-old Violet has been left in charge of her family's roadside antique shop. Her restless older brother, Bliss, has disappeared, leaving home without warning, and her parents have set off on his trail.
Violet is haunted by her brother's absence and burdened by her responsibilities. She spends her days at the busy store and her evenings at a nearby campground in a cottage her parents rented her and her best friend Jill for the summer. Violet is determined to do the best job she can running the store, but there are a lot of distractions, trying to land the contents of the mysterious Vaughn estate, visiting the hermit, Foster, to collect the twig furniture he crafts for the tourists, and hanging out with her boyfriend Dean.
What keeps her up at night, though, are the sightings of a ghostly white deer, which only she has seen...

RIEL NASON won the Commonwealth Book Prize (Canada and Europe region), the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, and the Frye Academy Award for her bestselling first novel, The Town that Drowned. It was also longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, and shortlisted for the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award, the Ontario Library Association Red Maple Award, and the University of Canberra Book of the Year citation. She is an acclaimed textile artist who was a professional antique dealer for many years.

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Comments

Like any great summer read, All The Things We Leave Behind will never truly be left behind.' Readers will remember Violet and her summer alone long after summer's end.

Nason's book, while not action-packed, offers a slow, powerful rumination on the universal aches of loss, existential dread, and adolescence. Read more...

"It's one I read back in the summer just as it came out. It is sticking with me... It's a story that is set in the 1970s near Kings Landing and when it opens, we know that the young girl is waiting to get news from her parents because they're out looking for her missing brother. The story is told through a series of flashbacks, and there's lots of surprises, but it's just the way the story is revealed, bit-by-bit, just completely charmed me. I loved it." Read more...