A Reason to See You Again
By Jami Attenberg
- Release Date: 2024-09-24
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a troubled mother and her two daughters over forty years through a swiftly changing American landscape as they seek lives they can fully claim as their own.
The women of the Cohen family are in crisis. After the death of their patriarch, Rudy, the glue that held them all together, everyone’s lives soon take a dramatic turn.
Shelly, the younger of the two Cohen sisters, runs off to the West Coast to immerse herself in the emerging (and lucrative) world of technology. Her sister, Nancy, gets married at the age of twenty-one to a traveling salesman with a shadowy lifestyle, while their mother, Frieda, hurls herself into a boozy, troubled existence in Miami, trying to forget the past even as it haunts her.
But each woman must learn in her own way that running from the past can’t save you—and they must make life-altering decisions about what they want their family to be and what they need for themselves to move forward.
Beginning in the 1970s and spanning forty years, A Reason to See You Again takes the reader on a kaleidoscopic journey through motherhood, the American workforce, the tech industry, the self-help movement, inherited trauma, the ever-evolving ways we communicate with one another, and the many unexpected forms that love can take.
Reviews
Brilliant, Touching and Unforgettable
5By VeniceDadIt’s just the characters, so flawed so normal so intriguing. Jami is brilliant in creating a storyline so close to our hearts yet is able to explore the depths of their souls which are marred in someway that makes us care and relate but also disassociate. It’s the women of the novel that are the most developed and intriguing. Jami explores how amazingly talented women deal with and confront a male dominated field and world by making difficult and sometimes self-destructive choices to further their own goals be that professional or personal. It is these life choices that the novel examines and lays bear for the reader. I try to pace myself so I can linger just a bit longer in the lives of her characters.
