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The members of the Kriegstein family deal with their tumultuous existence as their patriarch, Chris, accepts jobs around the world that bring them across North America, Europe, and Asia, until an unimaginable loss adds a permanence they never experiencedbefore.
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"Sonnenberg writes about expatriate life with an easy authority. . . . [She] is most interesting when she allows herself flights into the otherworldly. A house that longs for the family who once occupied it narrates the opening section. Sonnenberg introduces these stylistic conceits slyly. . . . In the elegiac final third of Home Leave, daughter Leah emerges as the book's emotional core. . . . This sets up an interesting contrast between the psychologies of mom and daughter: one never wanting to be fully known, the other never expecting to be found familiar. It's a dynamic that whets the appetite for what's to come in American expat literature."-Megan Hustad, The New York Times Book Review ("Editor's Choice")
