Where:
Wellesley Books
82 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02482
Admission:
$5.00
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
https://store.wellesleybooks.com/event/elinor-lipman-2019
Please note that this is a ticketed event. Your $5 ticket can be used as a coupon off the price of the book. You must buy your copy of "Good Riddance" from Wellesley Books in order to meet Elinor and have her sign your book at the event. You can buy tickets in-store (no fees), by phone at 781-431-1160 (no fees), or online by clicking the link to the left (processing fees apply).
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ABOUT GOOD RIDDANCE
The delightful new romantic comedy from Elinor Lipman, in which one woman’s trash becomes another woman’s treasure, with deliriously entertaining results.
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 teacher to whom the class of '68 had dedicated its yearbook, and in turn she went on to attend every reunion, scribbling notes and observations after each one—not always charitably—and 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 mysteries—not to mention her own family's—take on a whole new urgency, and Daphne finds herself entangled in a series of events both poignant and absurd.
Good Riddance is a pitch-perfect, whip-smart new novel from an "enchanting, infinitely witty yet serious, exceptionally intelligent, wholly original, and Austen-like stylist" (Washington Post).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ELINOR LIPMAN is the award-winning author of eleven novels, including The View from Penthouse B and The Inn at Lake Devine; one essay collection, I Can't Complain; and Tweet Land of Liberty: Irreverent Rhymes from the Political Circus. She lives in New York City.
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