A Reason to See You Again A Novel

Jami Attenberg

eBook - 2024

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 e...xistence 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... more