Goodbye Year
is an inspirational, honest, and hilarious tale of Toni’s approach to the end of
an era in the Piccinini household.
For
many mothers, a child’s senior year brings about a serious look back on the past
eighteen. Every event—from Halloween to Mother’s Day—becomes The Last
Time.
Toni Piccinini knows exactly what that’s like, and in The Goodbye Year, she offers the loving support
every soon-to-be Empty Nester needs. Think of Toni as your bossy-but-loving
Italian auntie, with modern sensibilities and a packed pantry. With the wisdom
she’s acquired from saying goodbye three times to her own children, she
reassuringly holds your hand while encouraging you through the insanity of the
college application process, the rejections and the acceptances, and the teary
dorm drop-offs. Even better, she reminds every mother that the best is yet to
come—freedom, creativity, flexibility, and the Me Years.
Paperback:
264 Pages
Publisher:
Seal Press (September 10, 2013)
ISBN-10:
1580054862
hashtag: #TGYPiccinini
The
Goodbye Year is available as a print and e- book at Amazon.
My Review:
Although it will be quite a few years yet until my first "goodbye year" arrives, I still found a lot of wisdom and wonderful advice for how to live day by day and enjoy each moment in my children's lives. I love how the author creates empathy within the reader (or at least within me) as she shares her emotional ups and downs while striving to survive and embrace each "last" moment of her child's final year at home. Her recipes are ones that left me quite hungry, especially as many of them are ones I'd love her to invite me over for - since I don't cook that well at home.
I enjoyed reading this book and found myself crying at some points and laughing hysterically in others (just ask my kids, they gave me some weird looks when I kept laughing but wouldn't tell them why!). It is a must read for any near empty nesters' or even ones who have already seen their child off to college. A fun and fantastic read.
AUTHOR
BIO:
Toni’s
writing career started when she stapled her first "book" together and launched
it at a reading attended by her brother, Scotty, and her Boxer, Lonesome. The
title-less story was a mash-up of Hansel and Gretel, The Six Swans, and a Box
Car Children adventure, with the protagonists (sister, brother, and dog) risking
everything in their quest for a magical lump of coal that would save the town.
It was an immediate success. During the fifty years between her first and second
book, The Goodbye Year: Wisdom and Culinary Therapy to Survive Your
Child's Senior Year of High School (and Reclaim the YOU of You) she has,
in no order of importance or chronology
·
opened
a "Top 100" San Francisco restaurant
·
published
scientific articles on the efficacies of antibiotics
·
sang
the National Anthem at high school football games
·
published
essays, recipes, and cookbook reviews
·
sent
three children off to college
Toni
lives in Marin County California, which is a long way from her Western
Pennsylvania hometown, Heilwood. She is busy on her next book, which may revisit
the power found in a magical lump of coal.
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