When You Went Away

Lou Aronica is the coauthor of the New York Times bestsellers The Element and Finding Your Element (both with Sir Ken Robinson) and the national bestseller The Culture Code (with Clotaire Rapaille) and the author of the USA Today bestselling novel The Forever Year and the national bestselling novels Blue, When You Went Away, The Journey Home and Leaves, among others. He lives in Southern Connecticut with his wife and four children. A long-term book industry veteran, he is the President and Publisher of the independent publishing house The Story Plant and a past president of Novelists Inc.