RaveThe New York Times Book Review\"Deep into the book, Leaving feels like a Westchester remix of Chekhov’s \'The Lady With the Dog,\' another story of adultery with a confrontation at the theater. Robinson’s storytelling is classic, page after page of swiftly moving scenes and writing as precise as rows of tilled earth. Robinson reworks the short sentence musically, repeating and returning until words yield their meaning ... At times, the characters’ restraint felt to me like that of another era. But I relaxed into Robinson’s masterly cadences and insights. After reading Leaving, and her 2008 novel of addiction, Cost, I’d read any story she has to tell ... The ending is a bombshell, eminently discussable. This lithe novel engrosses. Robinson proves that writers can still evoke the silences and renunciations that thwart desire, and that stars still cross.\
