01694cam a2200241 4500 83718890 TxAuBib 20110906120000.0 110519s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780312358341 $25.99 0312358342 $25.99 (OCoLC)704380317 DLC DLC BTCTA YDXCP ZGY TxAuBib Perrotta, Tom. The Leftovers / Tom Perrotta. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2011. 355 p. ; 25 cm. What if a number of us simply vanished? Would some collapse? Would others of us go on as we did before? That's what the bewildered citizens of Mapleton, who lost many of their neighbors, friends, and lovers in the Sudden Departure, have to figure out. Nothing is the same since it happened. Kevin Garvey, Mapleton's new mayor, wants to speed the healing process, to bring a sense of renewed hope and purpose to his traumatized community. His family has fallen apart in the wake of the disaster: his wife, Laurie, has left to join the Guilty Remnant, a cult whose members take a vow of silence; his son, Tom dropped out of college to follow a prophet named Holy Wayne. Only his teenaged daughter, Jill, remains, and she's definitely not the sweet "A" student she used to be. Kevin wants to help her, but he's distracted by his growing relationship with Nora Durst, a woman who lost her entire family on October 14th and still reels from the tragedy as she struggles to move beyond it and make a new start. 20110906. Life change events Fiction. TXPLE