This is a searching story of the dissolution of a family as the three Bishop children leave their many-gabled home in Brooklyn, one by one, to lead separate lives. A completely fascinating novel of what happens to every family as the children grow up, Leaving Home involves the reader in an uncanny sense of time and movement. The lives of the three Bishops-Nina, rebelling against the tide which is carrying her toward comformity; Kermit, ambitious and ruthless-emerge not as part of the plot of a novel but as the development of life itself.