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Leaving Home: Stories

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Leaving Home is a great book filled with 16 wonderful short stories by a terrific cast of writers. Some of those writers include Sandra Cisneros, Amy Tan, and Toni Morrison. If you are the type of person who enjoys reading about stories that pull at your heart and evoke feelings then this is the book for you. The stories in this book are about all different kinds of people that are forced to leave their homes for one reason or another, the problems that they encounter, and how they choose to deal with them. For example, one of my favorites is about a girl named Barnsey. She is forced by her parents to get on a bus and go visit her grandparents. While on this bus she happens to be seated next a significantly older and "freakish" looking girl named Dawn. As the bus ride progresses she gets to know Dawn and finds out that she is actually a very nice girl and is not all that dissimilar from herself. This is not the only kind of story in this book, ot just happens to be a personal favorite.

I have never really read a book like this before but I think after reading this one I might consider the idea. I'm not one that likes to sit down and read novels because I tend to loose interest about half-way through. I like the short stories because they are like condensed versions of the novels but I still seem to get as much out of them as I would anything else.

The only reason that I could see someone not enjoying this book is if they could not relate or connect with the stories. Since these stories are about actual events that took place to the authors then that could be possible. You just have to try and put yourself in their shoes and go along with it.

how many times have we gone through an overboring period in our teenage years when we felt that we couldn't expand our horizons? how many times were we either excited, concerned, or upset about something that happened during our chilhood? this is what leaving home is about, states of mind. it's easy to read a story, but it may not be that easy to live it. however, it's easy to picture it in your head, and that happens whenever a story is well-related. In Leaving Home you don't get anything besides plenty of well-related personal passages that changed somebody's life, and they can make you realize how or when did your life changed.

Rochman and McCampbell's Leaving_Home is a thoughtful collection of stories and poems that brings us in touch with those emotions that overcome us when we hear the word "home." These stories and excerpts include especially powerful selections from Amy Tan, Tim Wynne-Jones, and Tim O'Brien. Together, these stories remind us of the importance of our roots, and are at once reminiscent of Mann's Tonio_Kroger, but more thorough. A perfect reading selection for graduates.

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This anthology is perfect for high school and younger advanced readers because the essays deal with the emotional aspects of separating from your parents as you mature.

This book was well written by many authors. Some story was about the author them self. The story I research was Rules of the Games by Amy Tan. The story talk about a young girl that grew up in chinatown with her mother, father and her two brother. I beleive that the authors was focusing on there life story, the way they struggle during there life and the outcome of leaving home.

During our time we tend to read many book that honestly don't interest many people. I myself have read many books and "Leaving Home" a book with many short stories sure will be one of my favorites for now on. It is a book with many incredible stories about the authors personal experiences. After reading many of the short stories if Leaving Home I can honestly say their lives seem very familiar when I talk to friends about this book, In retrospect I myself found a story that sounded very familiar to my childhood. I truly recommend this book to anyone who loves to read as much I do.

This book consists of 15 carefully chosen short
stories about people who had to (for some reason)
leave home and how they deal with it. Hazel Rochman
and Darlene Z.McCampbell have done a nice job to
gather this stories form 15 famous authors including
Amy Tan, Tim O'Brien and Toni Morrison( a nobel
prise winner and a Princeton University professor).
It's an easy read and you won't be sorry of reading
it.

i like it and the discussion of our class never stop
talking about this book. also the short story is well
written because of the author's life. they find
new beginning like the book called the circuit. it
is about a young boy who changes to another place.
also a lot of different stories that tell about life
struggling. some will show happiness and some will
be sad.
but anyways i like it and hopefully someone who will
read my review will know why i like the book.

This book was great because the stories were almost kind of true. It makes us think of the characters situation and how we should react to it. I did liked it and the stories that we read were not boring at all, and the stories make you think.