Leaving Home

The New York Times Bestseller.
“Dear have I got a treat for you! Art Buchwald has written a book about his life . . . I guarantee 254 pages of pure pleasure.” — Ann Landers
“Strikingly honest . . . [Buchwald] grew up in orphanages and foster homes and never knew his mother who, shortly after he was born, entered a mental hospital and spent the rest of her life
there . . . . But instead of becoming a sociopath, Buchwald became a professional funnyman and a national figure whose columns skewer pretense and politicians . . . . Score one for humor as a means of survival.” — The Washington Post Book World
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