The Year That Follows [Paperback]

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.“[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.&rdquolÙ