Summary and Reviews of Coming Back To Me by Caroline Leavitt

Media Reviews

The New Yorker Leavitt's devotion to her characters, and to a surprising world view, gives the story a certain gravity.

The Washington Post Leavitt conjures up a nuanced cast of characters.

Kirkus Reviews In the vein of Jacquelyn Mitchard or Jane Hamilton. Realistic, well-plotted, eminently readable portrait of a family in crisis.

Library Journal Leavitt has a talent for creating believable characters whose problems touch the reader’s heart.

 Anne Lamott, author of Traveling Mercies Some Thoughts On Faith Caroline Leavitt is a marvelous writer.

 Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean Human nature can run from Caroline Leavitt, but cannot hide. She knows people, their fears, their blunders, and their reformation, and she tells them plain.

 Katharine Weber, author of The Music Lesson A rich and personal novel. What excellent writing, and what subtlety and intelligence inform this book. Readers who wait impatiently for the next Jane Hamilton or Sue Miller novel will find another favorite in Caroline Leavitt.

 Mickey Pearlman, author of What To Read The Essential Guide for Reading Group Members and Other Book Lovers. Don’t pick up Coming Back to Me, if you are supposed to be doing your taxes, the laundry or leaving for the office. You will read this extraordinary novel in one sitting, far into the night, if necessary! Rarely has an author succeeded so splendidly at making real the inexplicable event (here a life-threatening childbirth) while also reminding us of the struggle between sisters, the legacy of a missing mother, the enchantment of a healthy love affair, the kindness of others, and the resiliency that is born of impending disaster. Do not, repeat, no not miss this novel. Everything else can wait.