I read the book for the first time when I was about 14 and I think I must have read it about 10 times before I lost the copy when I was about 17
I remember loving the writting style and the struggle of the main character was similar to what I was going through ( although switched it was my mum not my daughter lol) I loved the message of finding happiness in small/big things like nature, that life somehow has to move on after death and I was envious of the main character for having the ability to “leave the world” which I so desperately wanted to do at the time and I was living through her
Because of all this I guess I could be biased in loving the book so much,
I’m curious about what other people that have read the book think of it , if the writing style holds up, if the potrayal of themes such as grief hold up, if the potrayal of the main character holds up
because again I haven’t read it since I was a teenager and because my tastes have changed so much since then, I’m kind of scared to reread it as it might spoil the fond memory for me, I tried searching up posts about it on reddit but I haven’t found any so here I am making my own post out of curiosity
Has anyone read it through an adult lense, what do you think?
by Spirited-Blood-6737
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I enjoy Douglas Kennedy. My favourite of his is *The Pursuit of Happiness* (no relation to the miss-spelled film), but *Leaving the World* is also excellent. It’s perhaps a bit disjointed in some ways (one Goodreads review says that it’s like a few novellas stitched together: I’m not at all sure I agree with that, but I do understand where the reviewer was coming from), but the prose style is very good and the main character very well drawn.