Jami Attenberg Reason to See You Again Hardback Book

From theNew York Timesbestselling 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, everyones 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 twentyone to a traveling salesman with a shadowy lifestyle, while their mother, Frieda, hurls herself into a boozy, troubled existence 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 cant save youand they must make lifealtering decisions about what they want their family to be and what they need for themselves to move forward. Beginning in the 1970s and spanning forty years, A Reason to See You Againtakes the reader on a kaleidoscopic journey through motherhood, the American workforce, the tech industry, the selfhelp movement, inherited trauma, the everevolving ways we communicate with one another, and the many unexpected forms that love can take. | Jami Attenberg Reason to See You Again Hardback Book