"The Year That Follows" joins the growing proliferation of fiction novels that use September 11 as a backdrop to their plot. This book was enjoyable -- a nice, light read, despite the serious time in which it takes place. To qualify it as more than chick lit would be difficult, though. In this novel, Cat is a single mom finds herself losing family members -- her mom while she is a young girl, her brother on September 11th and now her father is nearing the end of his life. Cat finds out her brother may have been a father and she is determined to find the son he never got to know. Her quest for the young boy is emotional, but made messy by a secondary plot line about Cat's love life that seems trite and moves the book away from a serious drama to something a little to light to be taken seriously. This is a story of a women whose brother tells her that he thinks he is a father and tells the mother's first name and where she works. Shortly after this is the World Trade Center attack. The brother is killed in the attack but his body is never found. The sister goes on a search to find the possible child. She is a single mother of a small boy, and meets up with a long lost love and he is a single father with a small boy.A quick story. A good read.
What do You think about Een Jaar Later (2010)?
A nice little book that examines the meaning of family in post-9/11 America.
—prueba43210
An ok book. It felt too "quiet." Too much thinking, not enough talking.
—mando
Good read. Well written. Didn't like ending.
—ChanieCakes
Loved this fiction book about a loss on 9/11
—embee
