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what you have left, a novel by will allison
from free press, an imprint of simon & schuster
available in hardcover (left), paperback (right), and audio book

In 1976, on the day of his wife's funeral, Wylie Greer drops off his five-year-old daughter, Holly, at his father-in-law's dairy farm on the outskirts of Columbia, South Carolina. Wylie asks for a little time to clear his head, but thirty years pass before Holly sees her father again. What You Have Left is about a father and a daughter trying to make their way back to one another across decades of longing, uncertainty, and ambivalence--all the while hoping to discover that what they have left is worth salvaging. Shot through with sly humor and a knowing sympathy for human weakness, What You Have Left is a stunning debut that explores the weight of history, the nature of loss, and the possibility of forgiveness.

"Mr. Allison's novel is plainspoken and eloquent in the way that So Long, See You Tomorrow is plainspoken--and eloquent. It's worked up right out of the American grain and speaks to me, direct and true."
--Richard Ford

"[O]ne of the year's best fiction debuts."
--Entertainment Weekly (The EW 100 issue), 06.29.07

"Allison's quiet prose gets at a mother's raw nerve, a father's desperate evasions, the daredevil rage of an abandoned daughter, and the anxiety of a husband curbing his own destructive impulses as he gauges the risks of love."
--O: The Oprah Magazine, June 2007

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