What We Leave Behind: A Novel. Halpern, Halpern, 9780063415386 Free Shipping**

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What We Leave BehindA Novel\nAuthor(s): Sue Halpern\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States\nImprint: HarperPerennial\nISBN-13: 9780063415386, 978-0063415386\nSynopsis\nFrom the author ofSummer Hours at the Robbers Library, a tenderhearted work of contemporary women's fiction about two very different women grappling with the messy emotional legacies passed down by their parentsfor fans of Dani Shapiro, Ann Napolitano, and Jodi Picoult.\n\nIts the perennial question: are we a product of how we were raised, or is our identity hardwired by our genetic inheritance? When her adoptive mother dies in a freak accident, high school senior Melody Marcus doubles down on her refusal to learn anything about her birth parents. In this age of 23, though, that may not be possible, and the family secrets hidden in her DNA threaten to upend everything she knows about herself and her family.\n\nFor Candace Milton, a successful woman in her forties, the emotional inher.