The Leaving, (Hardcover)

<p>When Trixie was sixteen, she learned how much could be lost without anything actually happening.</p><p></p><p>Years later, she is a mother herself-older, steadier, and still paying attention. When her marriage begins to unravel, Trixie finds herself facing the moment she has feared since girlhood: the moment when a child realizes the world is no longer secure.</p><p></p><p>Determined not to let history repeat itself, Trixie navigates early motherhood, betrayal, and the quiet devastation of abandonment with a vigilance born of experience. As the past presses in-through memory, inheritance, and the echoes of her own upbringing-she must decide what it means not just to survive loss, but to stop it from traveling any further.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Leaving, </strong>a companion to "Summer of Frogs,"<strong> </strong>is a novel about motherhood without illusion, love as responsibility, and the hard, deliberate work of ending a cycle.</p><p></p>

• The Leaving, (Hardcover)
• Author: Dawn White
• ISBN: 9798234099846
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2026-06-19
• Page Count: 74