A Beginner's Guide to Goodbye
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A Beginner's Guide to Goodbye
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Narrated by:
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Cass Beauvais
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Written by:
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Melanie Mosher
About this listen
Every summer, Laney’s family visits their cottage on Tidnish Beach. Summertime on Nova Scotia’s north shore is slow and sweet: there are long days in the water until fingers turn pruney, bottomless glasses of cherry Kool-Aid and bonfires with the other families summering along the shore. But this year the baking heat and bright red sand provide cold comfort. This year Laney’s little sister, Jenny, is gone.
Ten-year-old Laney grapples with the loss. She carries immense, secret guilt that she can only work out by writing letters to her sister. Laney’s mother won’t even say Jenny’s name, so writing quickly becomes Laney’s coping mechanism, to the detriment of her social skills. She avoids the other kids until she makes a new friend - one who doesn’t look at her with pity.
It’s a tough lesson for a preteen, but Laney must learn to acknowledge her grief in order to overcome it. When a situation arises and Laney needs to help her new friend, she finally understands that even though she will miss Jenny forever, she can find happiness again.
A tender meditation on life and loss through the lens of a childhood summer, A Beginner’s Guide to Goodbye will fill listeners with warmth and spark important conversations.
©2020 Melanie Mosher (P)2020 Melanie Mosher