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Book Review of The Dearly Departed

The Dearly Departed
The Dearly Departed
Author: Elinor Lipman
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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I enjoyed the book. Sunny Batten's mother dies and she returns to the small NH town where she grew up. She was always a loner, living in a house rented from the town for a pittance; her mother was a single parent; Sunny was the sole female golfer on the school's team and was picked on. She realizes that maybe her childhood wasn't as bad as she remembers. And she finds a huge surprise at her mother's funeral.