This year, we’re so excited to be traveling with you all summer long as we challenge you to read some phenomenal books, kicking off with Alice Eve Cohen’s The Year My Mother Came Back.
Destination: Find the miraculous in Manhattan
Thirty years after her death, Alice Eve Cohen’s mother appears to her, seemingly in the flesh, and continues to do so during the hardest year Alice has had to face: the year her youngest daughter needs a harrowing surgery, her eldest daughter decides to reunite with her birth mother, and Alice herself receives a daunting diagnosis. As it turns out, it’s entirely possible for the people we’ve lost to come back to us when we need them the most.
Alice Eve Cohen is a solo theatre artist, playwright, and memoirist. Her memoir, What I Thought I Knew (Viking, 2009) won the Elle’s Lettres 2009 Grand Prix for Nonfiction, it was selected as one of Oprah Magazine’s 25 Best Books of Summer, and has been optioned for a television movie by Lifetime. She has written for Nickelodeon, PBS, and CBS. Her plays have been presented at theatres throughout the country, and she has toured her solo theatre works internationally. Her writing about arts in education has been published in nine languages. The recipient of fellowships and grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, she holds a BA from Princeton University and an MFA from The New School. She teaches at The New School in New York City.
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I just starting to read The Year My Mother Came Back, but love Alice Eve Cohen’s writing already. Such a beautiful flow and grace. Even when jumping back and forth in time… it just flows.
Just started reading this, and I totally HATE every time I have to put it down!! It has touched a chord with me on so many levels already.
This was a fast read; maybe because of the way the author jumps back & forth in time. I really enjoyed this book. The interactions with her “mom” were so endearing and the strength she received from these moments was wonderful to witness.
Here’s my review of Alice Eve Cohen’s moving memoir http://www.christabanister.com/grab-the-tissues-for-the-year-my-mother-came-back/
Here’s a link to my review:
http://memesandfiction.blogspot.com/2015/06/booksparks-summer-reading-challenge.html