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A review by jmarchek
Goodbye for Now by Laurie Frankel
4.0
I'll also rate this book 2 kleenex boxes - because that's how much it made me cry. I thought this would be funny chick-lit but it was much deeper.
Sam is a genius computer programmer who works at a dating website. He finally designs an algorithm that helps people find their perfect match, and finds his - Meredith, a coworker. He then gets fired because the company starts losing money as customers find matches too quickly. Then Meredith's grandmother dies and she is heartbroken. Sam uses his amazing programming skills to design a computer program that utilizes all the grandma's electronic history (email, video chats) to make an electronic grandma that Meredith can communicate with.
They decide to use this "dead mail" to help other communicate with their lost loved ones and start a business. Neither of them realizes how hard it will be to deal with the grieving on a daily basis. They have a lot of ethical questions and moral issues. Then Meredith is killed in a freak accident and Sam uses his program to talk with her. There's also 2 other characters who die, so it's super sad, and really makes you think about death & grieving & healing. But Laurie Frankel's writing is so compelling that I couldn't stop reading(listening). Sam & Meredith are two very likable characters.
The narration in the audible version by Kirby Heybourne is top notch too!
Sam is a genius computer programmer who works at a dating website. He finally designs an algorithm that helps people find their perfect match, and finds his - Meredith, a coworker. He then gets fired because the company starts losing money as customers find matches too quickly. Then Meredith's grandmother dies and she is heartbroken. Sam uses his amazing programming skills to design a computer program that utilizes all the grandma's electronic history (email, video chats) to make an electronic grandma that Meredith can communicate with.
They decide to use this "dead mail" to help other communicate with their lost loved ones and start a business. Neither of them realizes how hard it will be to deal with the grieving on a daily basis. They have a lot of ethical questions and moral issues. Then Meredith is killed in a freak accident and Sam uses his program to talk with her. There's also 2 other characters who die, so it's super sad, and really makes you think about death & grieving & healing. But Laurie Frankel's writing is so compelling that I couldn't stop reading(listening). Sam & Meredith are two very likable characters.
The narration in the audible version by Kirby Heybourne is top notch too!