She writes in the "Reader's Guide" for the book, "but the time had come for someone of my generation, to tell the tale from the vantage point of the playground. When the Child Murders began, Jones was nine years old, attending Oglethorpe Elementary School. In her "Author's Note," Jones mentions she made some alterations to the historic chronology of the Atlanta Child Murders to suit the novel. Jones chose to use children's perspectives for her novel, "to make a record of how life was for those of us who were too young to understand the complicated social and political landscape of Atlanta, the 'city too busy to hate.'” Leaving Atlanta explores the interconnectedness of age, race, class, and politics in the proclaimed ‘Black Mecca’ during the Atlanta Child Murders. Leaving Atlanta focuses on three fictional students at Oglethorpe Elementary School: Tasha Baxter, Rodney Green, and Octavia Fuller.
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