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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 one of the towers. Turns out Kyle had confessed to Cat the night before that he believes he is a father, and that the child's mother worked in the World Trade Center. A year after the attack and with no orphan located, Cat's father, Sam, a widowed former military man dying of heart disease, invites Cat to join him in marking the anniversary of Kyle's death. Both Cat and Sam embark on emotional journeys toward each other and reconciliation, and along the way they each find love. The numerous sappy passages don't do any favors for a book with an already maudlin premise. (June)
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“[A] tender novel about the powerful, complicated ties of family.” — _The Boston Globe
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“Life-affirming … stirring, poignant, and quietly profound.” —Wally Lamb, author of The Hour I First Believed
“I couldn’t put Scott Lasser’s The Year That Follows down…. One of the best novels about loss I’ve ever read.” —Anita Shreve, author The Pilot’s Wife
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“Moving…. I won’t reveal the surprising ending to this touching novel, but … it manages to focus on the possibly redemptive aspects of 9/11 without being in any way saccharine or overdone.” —David Milofsky, The Denver Post
“A rich, complex tribute to the forces that bind families together and too often tear them apart.” — Bloomberg News
“Lasser’s spare, evocative prose lends grace to this moving tale of the enduring bonds of family that even tragedy can’t diminish.” — The Free Lance-Star
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“Sensational. . . . Lasser’s characters are life-like, and his fluid language and storytelling don’t prevent him from examining poignant emotional truths.” — The Aspen Times
“Will stay on the bookshelf for years.” —Daily Candy
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“With a surprise twist, this reflective novel is sure to spark lively discussion.” — The Missourian
“Getting to know Lasser’s complex and affecting characters is a profound pleasure, as is his radiant understanding of intimate relationships between parents and children and men and women. ” — Booklist(starred review)
“A taut, masterfully controlled and profoundly moving novel. . . . A novel with barely a wasted word or an emotion that doesn’t ring true.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“There are few books this reviewer is compelled to finish in one sitting, and this was one of them.” —Henry Bankhead, Library Journal
“A novel to savor, remember, to think about and pass along to a friend.” — Hudson Valley News
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