# Donna Has Left the Building

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- Book: [Donna Has Left the Building](https://www.bookquiver.com/susan-jane-gilman/donna-has-left-the-building) ([Donna Has Left the Building.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/susan-jane-gilman/donna-has-left-the-building.md))
- Authors: [Susan Jane Gilman](https://www.bookquiver.com/susan-jane-gilman)
- Publisher: grand_central_publishing
- ISBN: 978-15-3876-241-7
- Published: 2019-06-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Donna Koczynski is a failed punk rocker, recovering alcoholic, and suburban mother of two teenagers whose relatively peaceful existence suddenly detonates when she comes home early from a sales conference in Vegas to find the surprise of a lifetime. Suddenly realizing that life can be more than the rut of middle-aged motherhood, she sets off on an impulsive quest to reclaim everything she believes she sacrificed since her wild youth: Friendship, great love, and art. But as she flees her family and drives across the U. S. on what she calls an " emotional scavenger hunt"(and others might call a midlife crisis), nothing will turn out as she imagines. When her trip ultimately deposits her on faraway shores, making sacrifices of a wholly different kind, Donna begins to redefine what it means to be brave--and what matters in the end. Irresistibly funny, sharply-observed, and surprisingly moving, DONNA HAS LEFT THE BUILDING spins an unforgettable tale about how to make every day count as a wife, a mother, and a woman.