The Leaving Year

Myria winds up in Seville, convinced that travel is the cure for a broken heart. Now, she has to figure out how to leave the past behind and create a new life for herself in Spain.

Set in Seville during the 1980s, The Leaving Year is a story about a young American’s year abroad. Myria arrives in Spain after being dumped by Sheffield, her college boyfriend. Any understanding of Spain Myria has comes from books. She is quickly put to the test.

Living in a women’s boarding house, Myria’s Spanish roommates engage her in ways that cause her to rethink her identity as a woman and an American. The experience is painful at times, but also humorous and revealing. In search of emotional support, Myria gravitates towards Killian, a fellow American student. Killian is looking for someone to save him.

Killian complicates Myria’s life right from the start, and because of him she often finds herself in dangerous situations. Can she survive him?