Book Details
⚡️Book Title : Good Riddance
⚡Book Author : Elinor Lipman
⚡Page : 290 pages
⚡Published February 5th 2019 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Good Riddance - Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother, who held this relic dear. Too dear.The late June Winter Maritch was the teacherto whom the class of '68 had dedicated itsyearbook, and in turn she went on toattend every reunion, scribbling notes and observations after each onenot always charitablyand noting who overstepped boundaries of many kinds. In a fit of decluttering (the yearbook did not, Daphne concluded, "spark joy"), she discards it when she moves to a small New York City apartment. But when it's found in the recycling bin by a busybody neighbor/documentary filmmaker, the yearbook's mysteriesnot to mention her own family'stake on a whole new urgency, and Daphne finds herself entangled in a series of events both poignantand absurd.
Good Riddance
Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother, who held this relic dear. Too dear.The late June Winter Maritch was the teacherto whom the class of '68 had dedicated itsyearbook, and in turn she went on toattend every reunion, scribbling notes and observations after each onenot always charitablyand noting who overstepped boundaries of many kinds. In a fit of decluttering (the yearbook did not, Daphne concluded, "spark joy"), she discards it when she moves to a small New York City apartment. But when it's found in the recycling bin by a busybody neighbor/documentary filmmaker, the yearbook's mysteriesnot to mention her own family'stake on a whole new urgency, and Daphne finds herself entangled in a series of events both poignantand absurd.
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