Thanks to NetGalley, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Elinor Lipman for the opportunity to read her latest book - as you would expect from this author - a fun read!
Daphne is trying to figure out her life - newly divorced and jobless, she is doing the requisite "tidying up" concept in her apartment. She finds the high school yearbook her mother left to her in her will after her death the previous year. Daphne's mother was the yearbook advisor at the high school in New Hampshire where they lived while her dad was the principal. Her mom seemed especially obsessed with the Class of 1968 (the yearbook left to Daphne) and went to all their reunions. Daphne decides that the yearbook doesn't bring her joy, so she discards it in the recycling box at her apartment, where it is promptly discovered by her neighbor. This neighbor, a quasi-documentary producer, decides that the yearbook is the perfect basis for a show/podcast. Thus the secrets of the yearbook start rearing their head.
An enjoyable, light read that in the end is about family, loyalty and love.
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