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Goodbye Earl: A Revenge Novel
by Leesa Cross-Smith

    Publication Date: Jul 03, 2023
    List Price: $29.00
    Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
    Classification: Fiction
    ISBN13: 9781538707654
    Imprint: Grand Central Publishing
    Publisher: Hachette Book Group
    Parent Company: Lagardère Group

    Description of Goodbye Earl: A Revenge Novel by Leesa Cross-Smith

    Four women take fate into their own hands in this big-hearted story of friendship, resilience, and revenge on monstrous men, from the award-winning author of Half-Blown Rose.

    Taking inspiration from the infamous, empowering song, Goodbye Earl follows four best friends through two unforgettable summers, fifteen years apart.

    In 2004, Rosemarie, Ada, Caroline, and Kasey are in their final days of high school and on the precipice of all the things teenagers look forward to when anything in life seems possible … from falling in love, to finding their dream jobs, to becoming who they were meant to be.

    In 2019, Kasey has returned to her small Southern hometown of Goldie for the first time since high school—and she still hasn’t told even her closest friends the truth of what really happened that summer after graduation, or what made her leave so abruptly without looking back. Now reunited with her friends in Goldie for a wedding, she’s determined to focus on the simple joy of being together again. But when she notices troubling signs that one of them might be in danger, she is catapulted back to that fateful summer. This time, Kasey refuses to let the worst moments of her past define her; this time, she knows how to protect those she loves at all costs.

    Uplifting, sharp-edged, and unapologetic, Goodbye Earl is a funeral for all the "Earls" out there—the abusive men who think they can get away with anything, but are wrong—and a celebration of enduring sisterhood.