The Year That Follows

By Vittorio Morfino

Book Overview

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. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307271196
• ISBN13: 9780307271198
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Knopf
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.1" x 5.2"

Customer Reviews

A Joyful Read!!!

Scott Lasser's new book, The Year That Follows is a story about love, family, hope and courage in post 9/11 America. It is a wonderful, heartwarming book and I couldn't put it down.

Don't miss this deeply moving, masterfully told novel

In his previous books---Battle Creek, and All I Could Get---Scott Lasser proved himself to be one of those rare literary writers who not only has important stories to tell, but who also knows how to tell them. In both of those novels, Lasser offers compelling, flesh-and-blood characters who are not afraid to face the world and fight for what they want and for what they believe in. Lasser explores life-and-death themes---fathers...

Deserves a Big Following

Scott Lasser's third novel is a charm. I haven't read his first two yet, but they're on my list. The prologue packs a punch: Wall Street broker Kyle tells his sister Cat that he thinks he has an infant son from a relationship with another broker. The next day, both he and the child's mother die in the 9-11 attacks. Cat, a single mother living in Detroit, is determined to find the child with very little information to go on...

excellent

Fortyish bond trader Kyle died in one of the Towers of 9/11. Just before he died, Kyle informed his single mom sister Cat that he believed he is the father of an infant and that the mother also worked in the WTC. The siblings planned to meet shortly to honor their late mom; the next day Kyle was dead. Cat searches for her nephew, but makes no progress. A year later, Cat's dad Sam, a widower veteran dying from a congestive...

A Great American Novel

Scott Lasser's latest novel displays the writer's work at its most sensitive and compelling, with his trademark dry humor and the kind of page-turning pace that's rare in literary writing. It's too easy when thinking and writing about 9/11 to look at the larger crime and tragedy of it while forgetting the individual human lives that were changed forever. Using it as the backdrop for this ambitious and moving tale of quintessentially...