What We Leave Behind

Note to reader: What We Leave Behind was formerly published as The Waiting Room. A heartwarming, moving novel about mothers, daughters, family, letting go, and knowing our parents as people.

When Charlotte returns to the rural community of Marion, Missouri, to bury her mother, she doesn't for her homecoming to be long. She wants to settle her mother’s estate fast and put as many miles between her childhood home and her grief as possible.

But leaving her hometown and its painful memories behind proves harder than she realizes.

After her mother's funeral, Charlotte receives a disturbing postmortem letter from her mother. It's this letter that sends Charlotte on a journey through her mother’s life and reveals decades of family secrets, lies, and shocking betrayals.

What We Leave Behind is a captivating storyline about small-town life, forgiveness, and second chances.

Fans of Kate Hewitt, Ann Patchett, and Diane Chamberlain will devour this unputdownable small-town fiction debut novel from author Piper Punches.