How much can a family forgive?Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, rookie NYPD cops, are neighbors in the suburbs. What happens behind closed doors in both houses—the loneliness of Francis’s wife, Lena, and the instability of Brian’s wife, Anne, sets the stage for the explosive events to come.In Mary Beth Keane's extraordinary novel, a lifelong friendship and love blossoms between Kate Gleeson and Peter Stanhope, born six months apart. One shocking night their loyalties are divided, and their bond will be tested again and again over the next thirty years. Heartbreaking and redemptive, Ask Again, Yes is a gorgeous and generous portrait of the daily intimacies of marriage and the power of forgiveness.
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“A profound story…Keane’s gracefully restrained prose gives her characters dignity… shows how difficult forgiveness can be—and how it amounts to a kind of hard-won grace.” — Vogue
“A profound story…Keane’s gracefully restrained prose gives her characters dignity… shows how difficult forgiveness can be—and how it amounts to a kind of hard-won grace.”
“An epic of intertwined families redeemed by their enduring compassion for one another.”
“Keane’s novel is a rare example of propulsive storytelling with profound insights about blame, forgiveness and abiding love.”
“Keane writes with acute sensitivity and characters are consistently, authentically lived-in.”
“I devoured this astonishing tale of two families linked by chance, love, and tragedy…A must-read.”
" Two families intersect with issues of policing, mental illness, adolescents development. "
Mary Beth Keane is the author of several books, including Ask Again, Yes, which was a New York Times bestseller and named a Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Summer Reads Pick. She attended Barnard College and the University of Virginia, where she received an MFA degree. She was awarded a John S. Guggenheim fellowship for fiction writing and has received citations from the National Book Foundation, PEN America, and the Hemingway Society.
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