Jodi PicoultThis is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2014 by Jodi Picoult
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York.
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Grateful acknowledgment is given for permission to reprint “The Elephant” from NATURAL HISTORY by Dan Chiasson, copyright © 2005 by Dan Chiasson. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Picoult, Jodi.
Leaving time : a novel / Jodi Picoult
pages cm
ISBN: 978-0-345-54492-6
eBook ISBN: 978-0-345-54493-3
1. Teenage girls—Fiction. 2. Mothers and daughters—Fiction.
3. Missing persons—Fiction I. Title.
PS3566.I372 L43 2014
813’.54—dc23 2014023994
Jacket design: Gabrielle Bordwin
Jacket photograph: © David Jordan Williams
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