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The leftovers
In an event known as the Sudden Departure, scores of people have suddenly disappeared. Mapleton's new mayor, Kevin Garvey, aims to pick up the pieces of his wounded community. But Garvey must also face the reality of his own badly broken family in this powerful and deeply moving novel about people struggling to hold onto a belief in their own futures.
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- ""What if ... with no explanation--a number of us simply vanished? Would we think it was the Rapture? Would others of us go on, one foot in front of the other, as we did before the world turned upside down? That's what the bewildered citizens of Mapleton, who lost many of their neighbors, friends, and lovers in the event known as the Sudden Departure, have to figure out. Because nothing has been the same since it happened. Kevin Garvey, Mapleton's new mayor, wants to speed up the healing process, to bring a sense of renewed hope and purpose to his traumatized community"--Container."
- "What would happen if the Rapture actually took place and millions of people just disappeared from the earth? How would normal people respond? The residents of Mapleton use a variety of coping mechanisms in this thought-provoking novel about love, connection, and loss."
- "In an event known as the Sudden Departure, scores of people have suddenly disappeared. Mapleton's new mayor, Kevin Garvey, aims to pick up the pieces of his wounded community. But Garvey must also face the reality of his own badly broken family in this powerful and deeply moving novel about people struggling to hold onto a belief in their own futures."@en
- "In an event known as the Sudden Departure, scores of people have suddenly disappeared. Mapleton's new mayor, Kevin Garvey, aims to pick up the pieces of his wounded community. But Garvey must also face the reality of his own badly broken family in this powerful and deeply moving novel about people struggling to hold onto a belief in their own futures."