In this moving novel by award-winning author Ellyn Bache, 17-year-old Beryl Rosinsky, embarrassed by her mother's passionate civil rights activities in the fall of 1963, flees her home in Washington, DC, and enrolls in college at the University of North Carolina. Here, in the segregated South, she means to reject her destiny as her mother's daughter by conforming and fitting in. But she finds herself in a world of uncomfortable paradoxes. Southern good manners don't extend to the black girl who lives alone on the other side of the dorm. Strict rules for women students don't apply to men....
In this moving novel by award-winning author Ellyn Bache, 17-year-old Beryl Rosinsky, embarrassed by her mother's passionate civil rights activities i...
"Bache writes straight from the heart, peopling her pages with characters you will never forget." --Lee Smith, author of Fair and Tender Ladies
"Ellyn Bache draws her characters from the inside." --Baltimore Sun
Critically acclaimed author Ellyn Bache captivates with The Art of Saying Goodbye, a beautiful and poignant story of four suburban women who gain new insights and appreciations of their own lives when a much-loved neighbor falls gravely ill. In the tradition of Kristin Hannah's Firefly Lane and Marisa de los Santos's...
"Bache writes straight from the heart, peopling her pages with characters you will never forget." --Lee Smith, author of Fair and Tender ...
