Ask Again, Yes (Hardcover)

from Hccpsk

What separates Mary Beth Keane's Ask Again, Yes from other multi-generational, New York novels that I have read in the last 10 or so years? (See We Are Not Ourselves, The Dutch House, etc.) Not much, really, but I still enjoyed it. Two young police officers who end up neighbors form the beginning...

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It seems pretty obvious to say that your family shapes you, that your experiences make you who you turn out to be. As obvious as it sounds, it is true. But people react to their same circumstances, their same raising, the same major events in their lives in very different ways because there are a...

from indygo88

It's the 1970's and Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope meet while attending police academy in NYC. While acquaintances, they're not necessarily friends, but they do eventually become next door neighbors in a New York suburb as they raise their families. Francis is the father of three girls, while...

from nicx27

I hardly know where to begin to review this book. I think it's one that will keep coming back to me over the next few days, so immersed in the characters' lives was I. It's the story of the Gleesons and the Stanhopes. Both families live in New York but have Irish backgrounds. Francis Gleeson and ...

from alanna1122

I hadn't heard anything about this book and I saw it on the Lucky Page at the library and on a whim decided to just read it without a recommendation or any other information. Turns out, it is just the sort of book I tend to gravitate towards anyways! It was basically a family saga. There is lots...