I'll Come to You
A Novel
by Rebecca Kauffman
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Pub Date Jan 07 2025 | Archive Date Dec 20 2024
Catapult, Counterpoint Press, and Soft Skull Press | Counterpoint
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Description
A modern and classic story of family, I'll Come to You chronicles intersecting lives over the course of one year—1995—anchored by the anticipation and arrival of a child. With empathy, insight, and humor, 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.
Advance Praise
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR I’LL COME TO YOU
“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
“I’ll Come to You is a deft, engrossing novel, full of subtle humor and compassion. In scenes as precise and intimate as lighted windows on a dark street, Rebecca Kauffman explores those everyday encounters and accidents that can loom so large they overwhelm a life.”
—Sofia Samatar, author of Opacities and The White Mosque: A Memoir
“An exquisite work of fiction that shines a light on one year in the life of a family—their truths and lies, vows and betrayals, seductive dreams and deepest fears. Like Elizabeth Strout and Marilynne Robinson before her, Kauffman is brilliant at drawing out the subtle links between lives—and at capturing the mix of awe and terror that exists within us all.”
—Jonathan Lee, author of The Great Mistake
“Ordinary lives are rendered with extraordinary insight in I’ll Come to You, a novel as delightful as it is darkly funny, at once caustic and profoundly compassionate. Rebecca Kauffman, where have you been all my life?”
—Andrew Ridker, author of The Altruists and Hope
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781640096714 |
| PRICE | $26.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 224 |
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