Good Riddance

good riddance to this boring ng stupid book indeed. they had to be friends with /pay for all those great reviews..i slowly went into a coma trying to read this. I read from the beginning. boring . I read from the end ..still boring. not sure if a lead character can be any dumber than this one was with zero personality .I see will be avoiding anything else I see with this name on it

Daphne left small town New Hampshire for the bustle and opportunity of New York City, and in her attempts to declutter her life and make a new start full of NONE of the mistakes of her past, her mother’s yearbook from her first year of teaching isn’t one of the things that hit the Keep pile. A favorite teacher of many, had treasured this yearbook and left little notes about students, successes and failures all through it. Surprisingly, she also left the yearbook to the daughter who had the least interest in it, in fact, Daphne has ZERO idea why it was important to her mother, or that it would become an important element in her growth and learning to be an adult. Tossing it out in the garbage, her neighbor, who also turns out to be a budding documentarian retrieves it – and begins to question everything and everyone about it. But, things quickly deteriorate as Daphne, fresh from her ‘declutter phase’ is confronted by the budding documentarian Geneva, a woman with no boundaries or social niceties, and a childish unwillingness to return the yearbook to Daphne- ‘finders keepers’ was the phrase invoked. Oh these two were completely off the rails – funny and angsty, sharp tongued and insatiably curious, the story moves from laugh out loud moments in an almost ‘call and response’ manner to some truly thorny questions that have Daphne wondering far more about her mother and the yearbook than she ever thought possible. Clever characterization and development, dialogue that is witty and often pointed, and plenty of moments that bring choices past and present into the forefront, this is a story that is lighthearted at first, revealing it’s deeper and more relevant pieces as it moves along, showing growth and discovery in equal measure on the way to the end. I received an eArc copy of the title from the publisher via Edelweiss for purpose of honest review. I was not compensated for this review: all conclusions are my own responsibility.