Leaving Home brings together three previously published short pieces, each dealing with a variation on the theme of leaving home. The first, Weights and Measures, deals with the tragic loss of a child; the second is a nfiction letter Picoult wrote to her eldest son as he left for college; and Ritz tells the story of a mother who takes the vacation all mothers need sometime. It is impossible t to be held spellbound by the way she forces us to think, hard, about right and wrong. The Washington Post