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The Dearly Departed (2001)

de Elinor Lipman

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Fiction. Literature. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:With her trademark humor and warmth, the beloved author of The Ladies' Man and The Inn at Lake Devine explores going home again; about finding light in the dark corners of one's inhospitable past; about love, golf, and DNA. /> Everyone in King George, New Hampshire, loved Margaret Batten, part-time amateur actress, full-time wallflower, and single mother to a now-distant daughter, Sunny. But accidents happen. The death of Margaret, side by side with her putative fiancé, brings Sunny back to the scene of the unhappy adolescence she thought she�??d left behind. Reentry is to be dreaded; there�??s no hiding in a town with one diner, one doctor, one stop sign, one motel. Yet allies surface; even high school tormentors have grown up in unforeseen and gratifying ways. Just possibly, Sunny begins to think, she wasn�??t as beleaguered as she felt she was. And maybe her mother�??s life was richer than anyone suspected. Add to the mix… (més)

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Lipman's books look as if they must be 'guilty pleasure' books, but I swear they're good--Lipman has a singular voice and dry sense of humor. They're in a class of books that is hard to come by--maybe not 'literary fiction' but fun: well-written keen studies of people. Though I and others might argue that they are 'literary fiction'! If only the covers didn't scream 'chick lit'... (

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giovannaz63 | Jan 18, 2021 |

A fun little romp that begins with two funerals and ends with two romances. (

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stephkaye | Dec 14, 2020 |

Read during Spring 2004

Elinor Lipman seems to have an uncanny ability to create completely annoying and shallow characters that you just love to hate. The best part in this one is that they fall for each other off stage and leave the main part to two characters I really liked. One of her best ones, right up there with The Way Men Act and The Inn at Lake Devine.

amyem58 | Jul 14, 2014 |

Great, dryly funny and very moreish. It's in the genre of the death of a parent causing someone to go back to the small town where they grew up. There's unresolved high school baggage and realising that they didn't know their parent as well as they thought. Very good, though. (

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annesadleir | Jun 14, 2011 |

The accidental death of a woman and her lover brings her daughter and his son together fot the funeral. As the story unfolds, we find out they are step siblings. Set in a small, rural american town, the story has a certain charm and keeps the reader's interest to the end. (

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This book is dedicated to my son, Benjamin Lipman Austin

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Sunny met Fletcher for the first time at their parent's funeral, a huge graveside affair where bagpipes wailed and strangers wept. It was a humid, mosquito-plagued June day, and the grass was spongy from a midnight thunderstorm. They had stayed on the fringes of the crowd until both were rounded up and bossed into the prime mourner's seats by the funeral director. Sunny wore white -- picture hat, dress, wet shoes -- and an expression that layered anger over grief: Who is he? How dare he? Are any of these gawkers friends?

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Fiction. Literature. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:With her trademark humor and warmth, the beloved author of The Ladies' Man and The Inn at Lake Devine explores going home again; about finding light in the dark corners of one's inhospitable past; about love, golf, and DNA.

Everyone in King George, New Hampshire, loved Margaret Batten, part-time amateur actress, full-time wallflower, and single mother to a now-distant daughter, Sunny. But accidents happen. The death of Margaret, side by side with her putative fiancé, brings Sunny back to the scene of the unhappy adolescence she thought she�??d left behind. Reentry is to be dreaded; there�??s no hiding in a town with one diner, one doctor, one stop sign, one motel. Yet allies surface; even high school tormentors have grown up in unforeseen and gratifying ways. Just possibly, Sunny begins to think, she wasn�??t as beleaguered as she felt she was. And maybe her mother�??s life was richer than anyone suspected. Add to the mix

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