I'll Come to You
A Novel
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発行者による作品情報
With empathy, insight, and humor, I’ll Come to You chronicles the intersecting lives of one unforgettable family over the course of a year—1995—anchored by the anticipation and arrival of a child in this "intimate, wise and funny" novel that's "a true gem about life's changing seasons." —People
“Rebecca Kauffman writes like a sunbeam, strong and warm on whatever lands in her path. This book only looks short—in reality, it reveals a family so richly drawn, so deep and complex, that it contains the whole world.” —Emma Straub
A modern and classic story of family, with I'll Come to You, beloved author Rebecca Kauffman explores overlapping narratives involving a couple whose struggle to become pregnant has both softened and hardened them, a woman whose husband of forty years has left her for reasons he’s unwilling to share and the man who is now disastrously attempting to woo her, a couple in denial about a looming health crisis, and their son who is fumbling toward middle age and can’t stop lying. Ultimately, these storylines crescendo and converge into a dramatic and harrowing turn of events. With heart, wit, and courage, and through pain, these characters traverse territory that both challenges and defines the bonds of family.
Sweeping yet compact, I’ll Come to You investigates themes of intimacy, memory, loss, grief, and reconciliation, and the wonder, terror, frustration, fear, and magic of brushing up against the unknowable—both around us and within us.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This finely tuned family drama from Kauffman (Chorus) takes place over one year in an unremarkable middle American town, as a new grandfather deals with dementia. It's 1995, and Bruce's wife, Janet, can't bring herself to tell their adult children about his cognitive decline. Their daughter, Corrine, finally has a new baby girl after an arduous struggle to conceive with her husband, Paul. Her brother, Rob, meanwhile, can't accept that his ex-wife has moved on to another relationship. Kauffman also explores fissures in Paul's family, as Paul resents his father for leaving his mother, Ellen, a sweet, hardworking school bus driver, who's surprised herself by finding a new boyfriend. After all the characters get together on a snowy, fateful Christmas Eve, the siblings bicker until a life-threatening event forces them to put aside their differences. The author has drawn authentic and believable portraits of these flawed but decent people as they negotiate life's upheavals. Ellen, whose reward for 35 years of driving a school bus is a $35 Kmart gift certificate, delivers the novel's poignant epitaph: "I'm gonna get myself together here, then I'll come to you." Kauffman's fans will love this.
