You will not sleep, check your phone or even breathe once you begin reading The Leaving. Altebrando hides a meditation on memory and identity inside a top-speed page-turner. I promise, you will not even look up from the page
E. Lockhart, author of WE WERE LIARS on THE LEAVING
This intriguing story will have you flipping pages until the very end
Buzzfeed, on THE LEAVING
4 stars: creepy mystery about missing children returning home
Heat Magazine on THE LEAVING
This book gripped me on the first page, and by the last, had really moved me. It's a twisty, oh no she didn't thriller that keeps the surprises firing, but also a thoughtful meditation on memory, identity, and what really makes us who we are
Bennett Madison, author of SEPTEMBER GIRLS on THE LEAVING
As heart-stopping as it is heartbreaking, The Leaving layers a wildly strange suspense story over a lovely and unexpected narrative of grief, loss, and the struggle to imagine a future in the shadow of the past
Robin Wasserman, author of GIRLS ON FIRE on THE LEAVING We are rushed headlong into Altebrando's The Leaving, and instantly we want to know: who are these wildly intriguing teens? Where are their memories hiding? Who or what has engineered the disappearance of their childhood? Bold, inventive, and engaging, The Leaving leaps straight off the page
Beth Kephardt, author of SMALL DAMAGES and THIS IS THE STORY OF YOU on THE LEAVING This is no mere thriller; folded into this compulsively readable work are thought-provoking themes ... Teens who enjoy engrossing, contemplative titles such as Adam Silvera's More Happy Than Not will devour this insightful musing on memory and identity
starred review
School Library Journal on THE LEAVING
A twisting, harrowing story ... Engrossing, both as a thriller and a meditation on memory - its limits, its loss, and the ways it deceives and constructs identity
starred review
Publishers Weekly on THE LEAVING