### From Publishers Weekly A daughter and her father navigate the year that follows September 11, revealing secrets and healing old wounds in this slightly higher-brow Nicholas Sparksian melodrama. Single mother Cat searches for the orphaned child of her brother, Kyle, after Kyle died on 9/11 in on
The year that follows: a novel
β Scribed by Scott Lasser
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 120 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
EDITORIAL REVIEW:
The story of a womans search for her brothers lost son, orphaned in the wake of his sudden death, drives Scott Lassers riveting new novela work of stunning economy and momentum about a womans quest and a familys longing for wholeness and completion.Cat is a single mother living in Detroit when her brother is killed in New York, and she sets off in search of his child. Her search is still under way when she gets a call from her father. Sam is eighty and carrying the weight of a secret he has kept from her all her life. He asks Cat to visit him in California, intending to make his peace.Cats journeytoward her father, and her brothers infant sonand Sams journey toward his daughter, his lost son, and a new relationship to both his future and his past are woven into this superbly realized novel about families and the mysteries and ambiguities that inhere in our most primal relations. The result is a deeply stirring work that explores the complexities of home and heritage, and the bonds that even death is powerless to diminish.
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The story of a woman's search for her brother's lost son, orphaned in the wake of his sudden death, drives Scott Lasser's riveting new novela work of stunning economy and momentum about a woman's quest and a family's longing for wholeness and completion. Cat is a single mother living in Detroit when
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The story of a womans search for her brothers lost son, orphaned in the wake of his sudden death, drives Scott Lassers riveting new novela work of stunning economy and momentum about a womans quest and a familys longing for wholeness and completion.Cat is a single mother livin
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The story of a womanβs search for her brotherβs lost son, orphaned in the wake of his sudden death, drives Scott Lasserβs riveting new novelβa work of stunning economy and momentum about a womanβs quest and a familyβs longing for wholeness and completion.Cat is a single mother liv
### From Publishers Weekly A daughter and her father navigate the year that follows September 11, revealing secrets and healing old wounds in this slightly higher-brow Nicholas Sparksian melodrama. Single mother Cat searches for the orphaned child of her brother, Kyle, after Kyle died on 9/11 in on
Cat is a single mother living in Detroit when her brother is killed in New York, just a day after he told her that he thought he had a son. Filled with determination, she sets off on a search for the orphaned boy, but itβs interrupted when she gets a surprise call from her father. Sam is eighty and