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What YOU MIGHT HAVE Left is an unforgettable account of love, reduction, and, most of all, longing.
In 1976, on your day of his wife's funeral, Wylie Greer drops off his five-year-old daughter, Holly, at his father-in-law's dairy products farm on the outskirts of Columbia, SC. Wylie explains to her he just requires a short amount of time to clear his mind, but thirty years move before Holly views her father again -- "time I put in pondering what I'd done to make him leave," she says, "and what I could do to make him come back."
What YOU MIGHT HAVE Left is approximately a father and daughter aiming to make their in the past to one another across generations of doubt and ambivalence -- all the while hoping to discover that what they have left is worth salvaging. It is also the story of an grandfather bent on suicide, a pioneering woman NASCAR drivers, a heartbroken amnesiac, a video tutorial poker junkie, and assorted other liars, cheaters, and enthusiasts who, despite their best motives, never quite surpass their own expectations.
Are we doomed to repeat our parents' flaws? Can lies save love instead of destroying it? Is permitting go the same as giving up? Shot through with sly laughter and a knowing sympathy for individuals weakness, What YOU MIGHT HAVE Left takes up these and other questions as it examines the weight of record, the nature of reduction, and the opportunity of forgiveness. Making use of striking shifts in point of view and time, Allison proves a brilliant observer of the emotional legacies handed down from father or mother to child and the ways reduction defines us. This stunning debut brims with an love for humanity exactly as it is -- in every its ignorance and recognition, its swagger and humility, its despair and desire.
