book cover of Leaving Brooklyn
 

Leaving Brooklyn

(1988)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book (nominee)
An injury at birth left Audrey with a wandering eye. Though flawed, the bad eye functions well enough to permit her an idiosyncratic view of the world, one she welcomes in the stifling postwar Brooklyn of the 1950s. During a journey to Manhattan to see a doctor about her sight, she begins to explore the sexual rites of adulthood. But can her romance last? In this beautifully observed novel, Lynne Sharon Schwartz raises themes of innocence and escape while illuminating the rich inner life of a singular girl.

Genre: Literary Fiction

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