Saturday, November 16, 2024

A Reason to See You Again

A Reason to See You Again by Jami Attenberg, 230 pages

After the death of family patriarch Rudy, the Cohen women are set adrift. Rudy's widow, Frieda, drowns her sorrows in alcohol, while daughters Shelly and Nancy run off to take the tech industry by storm and marry a shady traveling salesman, respectively. Over the course of 50+ years, their lives diverge and come together, creating a complex tapestry of strained relationships and unresolved grief. Told through vignettes set every few years between the late 1960s and today, it's a very realistic story of a very dysfunctional family.

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