Friday, March 15, 2019

Good riddance

Good riddance / Elinor Lipman, read by Mia Barron, 290 pgs.

Newly divorced Daphne never really understood her mom's obsession with an old yearbook from her first year of teaching.  Sure, she was the year book adviser and the book was dedicated to her.  She used it to keep notes on the class whose reunions she attended.  When the yearbook is left to Daphne when her mom dies, she keeps it for a year then throws it in the recycle bin in her apartment.  The neighbor down the hall is a documentary film maker, she finds the yearbook, decodes some of the notes and decides it would make a great story for her to research.  Now, with her mom's reputation on the line (turns out some of those notes were a bit catty), Daphne needs to figure out how to put the brakes on this project. A bit of hilarity ensues as Daphne makes things up on the fly, deals with her widowed dad moving from New Hampshire to an apartment 5 blocks away, and discovering something very interesting about one of her mother's ex-students.  Luckily, the neighbor across the way is available for a romantic interlude.  Fun to read and not take too seriously.  The audio is excellently narrated by Mia Barron.

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