The Leaving Room
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- 14,99 €
Publisher Description
"Achingly tender."
"Intimate and astonishing."
For fans of You've Reached Sam and If I Stay, a hauntingly beautiful, ultimately hopeful novel-in-verse about a girl in between life and death, by National Book Award Finalist Amber McBride, who also narrates.
Gospel is the Keeper of the Leaving Room—a place all young people must phase through when they die. The young are never ready to leave; they need a moment to remember and a Keeper to help their wispy souls along.
When a random door opens and a Keeper named Melodee arrives, their souls become entangled. Gospel's seriousness melts and Melodee’s fear of connection fades, but still—are Keepers allowed to fall in love? Now they must find a way out of the Leaving Room and be unafraid of their love. In a novel that takes place over four minutes, National Book Award finalist Amber McBride explores connection, memory, and hope in ways that are unforgettable and poignant.
"[Amber] McBride brings a special gift to this production by narrating her own material. Skillfully, her pacing reflects the verse format of her novel, providing the rhythms she intends to her words." —AudioFile on We Are All So Good at Smiling
A Macmillan Audio production from Feiwel & Friends
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Told in verse, this story of a very unusual caregiver left us grappling with the profound nature of life and death. Gospel is the Keeper of a Leaving Room, a tiny but beautiful place where she helps dead children prepare themselves to go somewhere else, leaving their memories behind. She’s not supposed to look at their memories, she’s not supposed to have feelings, and above all else, she’s not supposed to leave. But her yearning to bend, and then break, these rules reaches a fever pitch after another Keeper, Melodee, visits her room. Is there a way for these two to love…and live? Amber McBride narrates her own novel in a lovely voice that reinforces the sweet and melancholy tone of this short work. The Leaving Room ponders the sorrow of lives ended too soon and the vast power that love for others and for ourselves gives us to strive for something beyond the roles imposed upon us by outside forces.
