No Goodbye Today
A poignant, sweeping novel about grief and family secrets
‘Someone is already going to die in this chapter,’ the nameless narrator cautions on the very first page of No Goodbye Today. En route to his holiday destination, Oskar van Bohemen collapses at Schiphol Airport, which turns out to be a place of departure in more ways than one. From there, we follow his three grown children, who each had their own difficult relationship with him and experience his death in very different ways.
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All families are normal when you’re growing up in them; no family is normal when you look back on it’ – that apt quote sums up No Goodbye Today, a family epic as true-to-life as it is devoid of ego, as ordinary as it is extraordinary (…) One of the warmest books I read this year.
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