The Year That Follows (Vintage Contemporaries) - Softcover

"[A] tender novel about the powerful, complicated ties of family." --The Boston Globe

"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

"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

"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

"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

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 it’s interrupted when she gets a surprise call from her father. Sam is eighty and carrying the weight of a secret that he has kept from Cat all her life—and one that threatens the family she is attempting to build.
 
Superbly realized and deeply profound, The Year That Follows explores the complexities of love and the bonds that even death is powerless to diminish.