By Britni Virgil
If you look back at your life, can you think of moments that changed your life and made you who you are now?
The title The Year We Left Home is a little misleading because this book isn't about a year; it's about a series of moments, moments in a family's life that tie the family together. But from the very beginning I knew I was going to like it. The book is about a family from Iowa that goes through everything we all go through - rebellion, death, life, divorce, war - and somehow manages to come out on the other side even when you don't think it's possible.
The book is broken into chapters that are really short stories about these different moments in time. Each story is told from the point of view of one of the family members spanning three generations. The stories... More...