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''What She Left Behind'' is a young adult novel by Tracy Bilen about a girl named Sara who is a victim of domestic abuse after her brother [[DrivenToSuicide kills himself.]] Sara's mother makes plans with Sara to run away, but she disappeared right before they were supposed to leave. Most of the book consists of Sara, her brother's friend Zachary, and her new boyfriend Alex trying to figure out what happened to her.
!!This book provides examples of:
* AbusiveParent: Sara's father.
* AllAbusersAreMale: The only one we see is, anyway.
* [[spoiler: AllGaysLoveTheater: Part of the reason Matt's father wanted him to quit the play - it was where he was meeting with Jay, whom he was in a relationship with.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Despite Sara and her mother's abuse ending, it was still presented as a tragedy that Sara's father died, as Sara still loved him.]]
* [[spoiler: BuryYourGays: Matt died before the beginning of the book. Jay is still alive, though.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Jay]].
* [[spoiler: ComingOutStory: Part of the reason that Matt killed himself was that when he came out to his parents, his father wasn't accepting.]]
* DomesticAbuse
* DrivenToSuicide: Matt, before the beginning of the book.
* OffingTheOffspring: Sara's father to Matt, and to Sara, to a lesser extent.
* OldShame: Sara's father lost his job as a police officer due to a vaguely described incident a few years before the book's start.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Matt is gay and in a relationship with Jay.]]
* SecretRelationship: [[spoiler: Matt and Jay were in one before the start of the book.]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarReplacement: An interesting example - Sara [[spoiler: and eventually her father]] sometimes pretend that Zachary is Matt so that it doesn't feel like as much of a loss to them.
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''What She Left Behind'' is a young adult novel by Tracy Bilen about a girl named Sara who is a victim of domestic abuse after her brother [[DrivenToSuicide kills himself.]] Sara's mother makes plans with Sara to run away, but she disappeared right before they were supposed to leave. Most of the book consists of Sara, her brother's friend Zachary, and her new boyfriend Alex trying to figure out what happened to her.
!!This book provides examples of:
* AbusiveParent: Sara's father.
* AllAbusersAreMale: The only one we see is, anyway.
* [[spoiler: AllGaysLoveTheater: Part of the reason Matt's father wanted him to quit the play - it was where he was meeting with Jay, whom he was in a relationship with.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Despite Sara and her mother's abuse ending, it was still presented as a tragedy that Sara's father died, as Sara still loved him.]]
* [[spoiler: BuryYourGays: Matt died before the beginning of the book. Jay is still alive, though.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Jay]].
* [[spoiler: ComingOutStory: Part of the reason that Matt killed himself was that when he came out to his parents, his father wasn't accepting.]]
* DomesticAbuse
* DrivenToSuicide: Matt, before the beginning of the book.
* OffingTheOffspring: Sara's father to Matt, and to Sara, to a lesser extent.
* OldShame: Sara's father lost his job as a police officer due to a vaguely described incident a few years before the book's start.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Matt is gay and in a relationship with Jay.]]
* SecretRelationship: [[spoiler: Matt and Jay were in one before the start of the book.]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarReplacement: An interesting example - Sara [[spoiler: and eventually her father]] sometimes pretend that Zachary is Matt so that it doesn't feel like as much of a loss to them.
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