Heading the list of “six new paperbacks to read,” Leaving Lucy Pear is a moving novel about 18-year-old, unmarried, Radcliffe-bound Beatrice who leaves her newborn daughter in her uncle’s pear grove, hoping that the thieves who often steal fruit will take the child, too. Years later, in Massachusetts in the throes of Prohibition, Beatrice is restless, stalled and grieving, when the woman who adopted the baby begins working for Beatrice’s uncle, and the families’ fates are entwined yet again. Community Reads offers special pricing for book clubs to encourage them to read the book prior to the author’s appearance for a deeper discussion of the book and its themes.