What she Left Behind

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Call Number: Fiction / Wiseman, Ellen
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Includes a Q & A with the author.
Ten years ago, Izzy Stone's mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother's apparent insanity, Izzy, now seventeen, refuses to visit her in prison. But her new foster parents, employees at the local museum, have enlisted Izzy's help in cataloging items at a long-shuttered state asylum. There, amid piles of abandoned belongings, Izzy discovers a stack of unopened letters, a decades-old journal, and a window into her own past.

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What She Left Behind submitted by jheady on May 1, 2016, 10:20am This book follows the wonderful first book - THE PLUM TREE - and is different but just as good. Here she uses two voices, one of a young woman in 1929 banished to a place to keep her from being with her boyfriend and the other in 1995 a high school senior in a new school being bullied, but rising above this to search for information about the young woman in the past. She gets to glimpse some items from the trunk in the attic of a closed state hospital with her foster parents who are doing a study for their museum. The growth of the high school girl and despite the knowledge of sadness of the confined young woman do eventually bring some peace for all who are living.