The Embers
A People Magazine "Get Set for Summer Pick" One of InStyle Magazine's Top 5 Beach Reads Blessed with beauty, talent, and a loving family, the Aschers seem to have it all. Joe and Laura are the toast of New York--a wildly successful playwright and a wealthy, well-educated actress. Then one winter night, seventeen-year-old Thomas dies, and the Aschers lose everything. More than a decade later, as their daughter Emily's wedding approaches, the family yearns to reconnect. But in order to do so, Joe, Laura, and Emily will first have to confront the tangle of blame, guilt, and long-held secrets that tore them apart. Shifting between past and present over the course of sixteen years, The Embers is an utterly gripping and exquisitely tender story of a family struggling to reconcile the past and embrace the future.
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3/3/2015:
The author/publisher review of this book states “[..]the Aschers seem to have it all.” I never felt that was the way the family in this story lived. They had a family, but it never seemed ideal. They did have a vacation home in the Hamptons. Does that make it seem like they have it all? The story was written well and I was captured by the family events. At first, I had a hard time going back and forth between current and past events, but eventually everything started to make sense, and I was anxious to keep reading to find out how events from the past impacted current day events. Glad I received and read this “First-Reads” book. I have recommended it to my family book group.
