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One of the most beloved novels from the critically acclaimed novelist Laurie Colwin Goodbye Without Leaving explores a womans attempts to reconcile her rockandroll past with her significantly more sedate family life as a wife and mother

As a bored graduate student Geraldine Colshares is plucked from her tootame existence when she is invited to tour as the only white backup singer for Vernon and Ruby Shakely and the Shakettes The exciting years she spends as a Shakette are a mixed blessing however because when she ultimately submits to a conventional life of marriage and children she finds herself stuck in bittersweet recollections of life on the road As she grudgingly searches for a path toward happiness that doesnt involve a DayGlo neon minidress readers will be enchanted by Geraldines attempts to grow up eventhough shes already an adult

Employing Colwins usual dry wit and candor Goodbye Without Leaving is a classic from the writer hailed as ingenious comic and spirited by the Boston Globe and a writer of originality and vision by the San Francisco Chronicle