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“[Home Leave] whets the appetite for what’s to come in American expat literature.”
—Megan Hustad, The New York Times Book Review (“Editor’s Choice”)
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“Sonnenberg delivers a sympathetic, funny debut. . . . [She] eloquently illustrates the challenges and rewards of expat life.”
—Publishers Weekly
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“A captivating tour de force that follows a nomadic family across generations and continents.”
—filmmaker Wim Wenders
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“It’s hard to believe that this astonishing novel is Brittani Sonnenberg’s first—she writes about family with wisdom, humor, and native daring.”
—Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!
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“Authentic, beautiful, bravely-told, Home Leave is alive with characters you want to protect and hold-characters you won’t want to leave behind.”
—Nami Mun, author of Miles from Nowhere
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“Home Leave is a remarkable debut, notable for the insightful intimacy of its characterization and a restless formal invention which perfectly evokes the uncertainties of expatriate life.”
—Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl
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Chris Kriegstein is a man on the move, with a global career that catapults his family across North America, Europe, and Asia. For his wife, Elise, the hardship of chronic relocation is soothed by the allure of reinvention. Over the years, Elise shape-shifts: once a secretive Southern Baptist, she finds herself becoming a seasoned expat in Shanghai, an unapologetic adulterer in Thailand, and, finally, a renowned interior decorator in Madison…
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