WHAT HAPPENED TO GOODBYE

After her parents' bitter divorce, Mclean Sweet has moved a lot with her father, a restaurant consultant. Each time she tried on a new identity and learned not to get too emotionally involved at the temporary locales. Meredith Hagner sounds like a teen balanced between looking back at the way her family used to be and seeing how shaky things stand now. While Hagner succeeds as Mclean, she does not use an array of distinctive voices for the rest of the characters, so long stretches of dialogue can be confusing. Yet the focus here is on a young woman finding her place in this world—both literally and figuratively—and it’s hard to say goodbye to Hagler when the narration is over. M.M.O. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine [Published: JUNE 2011]