"This bright, well-crafted novel, set at a family gathering to celebrate a mother whose death is imminent, steers competently away from the maudlin and makes what could be a heavy-handed exploration of mortality instead an entertaining, sometimes delicate story." -- Lydia Millet

"Chenoweth avoids sentimentality, handling emotions with grace and consummate skill." -- New York Journal of Books

"Tender....Chenoweth's affectionate style works marvelously, capturing the decadence of youth." -- New York Times on Hello Goodbye

"Chenoweth writes with a restraint that allows minor gestures to become elegantly weighted with meaning." -- New Yorker on Hello Goodbye

"Poignant." -- Boston Globe on Hello Goodbye

"Elegantly crafted." -- Vanity Fair on Hello Goodbye

"A tender ode to empathy.... Every page of this book serves as an affirmation of the terrible, wrenching beauty of life." -- Elle Magazine on Hello Goodbye

"Moving and assured.... Chenoweth's smart, unsentimental and poignant takes on living and dying ring true, and her exploration of coming-of-age and coming to terms with mortality is divine." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Hello Goodbye

"An understated debut novel of great beauty and power." -- Kirkus Reviews on Hello Goodbye

"[Chenoweth] writes gracefully and eloquently of loss and love, portraying both generations at their most self-absorbed and most vulnerable." -- Library Journal on Hello Goodbye

"A beautiful novel ...Chenoweth's eye for telling detail is as sure as her language is playful." -- Alice Sebold, author of The Almost Moon and The Lovely Bones, on Hello Goodbye