

The Day My Mother Left
Author: James Prosek
Narrator: Joel Johnstone
Unabridged: 4 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Listening Library
Published: 03/13/2007
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes, Art, Family
Synopsis
When his mother leaves with the father of his worst enemy at school, nine-year-old Jeremy seeks to make sense of her abandonment. He throws himself into recreating the Book of Birds, a collection of drawings that his mother took with her on the day she left. While his father fights his own depression and his sister distances herself from their lives, Jeremy turns wholeheartedly to nature, and finds solace in the quiet comfort of drawing.