What I Leave Behind by Alison McGhee PDF Download

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” What I Leave Behind” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read.Sixteen-year-old Will spends most of his days the same way: Working at the Dollar Only store, trying to replicate his late father’s famous cornbread recipe, and walking the streets of Los Angeles. Will started walking after his father committed suicide, and three years later he hasn’t stopped. But there are some places Will can’t walk by: The blessings store with the chest of 100 Chinese blessings in the back, the bridge on Fourth Street where his father died, and his childhood friend Playa’s house.When Will learns Playa was raped at a party—a party he was at, where he saw Playa, and where he believes he could have stopped the worst from happening if he hadn’t left early—it spurs Will to stop being complacent in his own sadness and do some good in the world. He begins to leave small gifts for everyone in his life, from Superman the homeless guy he passes on his way to work, to the Little Butterfly Dude he walks by on the way home, to Playa herself. And it is through those acts of kindness that Will is finally able to push past his own trauma and truly begin to live his life again. Oh, and discover the truth about that cornbread.

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Will is just a kid trying to get by. Every day he thinks of his dad, who committed suicide a few years ago. If it weren’t for the note that they found, he would never have believed it. He doesn’t talk to anyone about it, but he does try to cope with it with something that has always stuck with him, something that his dad used to do… we get to see Will go to work, his relationship with his boss and how Will tries to make his boss feel like he’s something important, that he is being seen… we also get to see a small boy in Will’s neighborhood and how Will tries to keep an eye on him and leaves the boy small trinkets thinking that it will give the little boy extra time to stay little and naive in thinking that there really is magic in the world, to have an imagination and play, before being disillusioned into the real world… and then there are the feelings that he is dealing with in regards to his best friend Playa. Playa who he hasn’t been able to see yet; the guilt he feels about what happened to her and how he can help her.