The Year My Mother Came Back

✍ Scribed by Cohen, Alice Eve

• Book ID: 108649199
• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 103 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781616204310

✦ Synopsis

"A riveting journey." --Julie Metz, author of Perfection
"A perfect book. I want to tell everyone, every mother, every daughter, to read it." --Abigail Thomas, bestselling author of A Three Dog Life
For the first time in decades I'm remembering Mom, all of her --the wonderful and terrible things about her that I've cast out of my thoughts for so long. I'm still struggling to prevent these memories from erupting from their subterranean depths. Trying to hold back the flood. I can't, not today. The levees break.
Thirty years after her death, Alice Eve Cohen's mother appears to her, seemingly in the flesh, and continues to do so during the hardest year Alice has had to face: the year her youngest daughter needs a harrowing surgery, her eldest daughter decides to reunite with her birth mother, and Alice herself receives a daunting diagnosis. As it turns out, it's entirely possible for the...