![]() In every town and school she lands, she creates a new personality and a new name. ![]() Instead, she chooses instead to hit the road with her dad, a restaurant consultant, and begins a series of transformations. Her mom wants to her fold into her new family-complete with new house, siblings and everything else. Her parents’ marriage has recently imploded in light of her mother’s affair, making it feel like life she’d known before doesn’t exist anymore. Mclean, the narrator of What Happened to Goodbye, has good reason to want to be someone else. I get to be someone new every couple of years, if only for three hundred pages. I think I still am, and it’s why I’m a writer. Still, I was fascinated with the idea of totally reinventing myself. I can fully remember several Sunday nights thinking, “Tomorrow, when I go to school, I’m going to be a totally new person.” Which was, um, sort of hard to do in a small town where you’ve known everyone since you were in kindergarten. I didn’t like my hair or my clothes or my personality, and I was convinced that if I just managed to be different, somehow, everything else would be different as well. ![]() In high school, I was never happy with myself. ![]() Change beyond your control and change within it, and how closely the two are related. The idea for What Happened to Goodbye came from one thing: change. Connor Hamilton Where else did I read about that? Characters Places Things Sarah's Words from Sarahland ![]()
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