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Leaving Home

by Garrison Keillor · 1987 · 244 pages

Book 2 of the Lake Wobegon series

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Revisit the beguiling comic world of Lake Wobegon. In the first collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Keillor tells readers more about some of the people from Lake Wobegon Days and introduces some new faces. "Leaving Home is a book of exceptional charm . . . delightful . . . genuinely touching".—The Wall Street Journal.

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Genre
humor
Setting
1980sminnesota
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 244 pages
Form
short storiesessays

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