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Those seven words made up the last text message Carver Briggs would ever get to send to his best friend Mars. Seconds after Mars got that text, the car he was driving with their two other best friends, Eli and Blake, would be involved in an accident that would immediately kill all three of them.

In the aftermath of the fatal car crash, Carver can't stop blaming himself for the deaths of his three best friends. Between debilitating panic attacks and the threat of a possible criminal investigation, Carver finds an unlikely ally in Blake's grandmother who asks him to spend a goodbye day with her. This goodbye day is meant as a way to share their memories of Blake and say a proper farewell. As other families begin asking for these goodbye days as well, Carver questions their motives and worries that they'll lead him straight into a complete mental breakdown if he doesn't end up in prison first.

This book is filled with so much heart that it's impossible to read Carver's story without wondering how you would spend one last day with someone you've lost. What would that Goodbye Day look like for you?

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“When his three best friends die in a car crash after the driver was texting at the wheel, Carver becomes subject to a criminal investigation and receives support from a few loving people while trying to come to terms with his guilt.”