Melanie, a perfectionist mom who views the approaching end of parenting as a type of death, canâ€™t believe she has only one more year to live vicariously through her slacker senior son, Dane.

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The Goodbye Year

Melanie, a perfectionist mom who views the approaching end of parenting as a type of death, canâ€™t believe she has only one more year to live vicariously through her slacker senior son, Dane. Gorgeous mom Sarah has just begun to realize that her only daughter, Ashley, has been serving as a stand-in for her traveling husband, and the thought of her daughter leaving for college is cracking the carefully cultivated faÃ§ade of her life. Will and his wife are fineâ€”as long as he follows the instructions on the family calendar and is sure to keep secret his whole other life with Lauren, the woman he turns to for fun (and who also happens to have a daughter in the senior class).

Told from the points of view of both the parents and the kids, The Goodbye Year explores high school peer pressure, what itâ€™s like for young people to face the unknown of life after high school, and how a transition that should be the beginning of a coupleâ€™s second act togetherâ€”empty nestingâ€”might possibly be the end.

The Goodbye Year