“The Year That Follows” joins the growing proliferation of fiction novels that use September 11 as a backdrop to their plot. This book was enjoyable — a nice, light read, despite the serious time in which it takes place. To qualify it as more than chick lit would be difficult, though.
In this novel, Cat is a single mom finds herself losing family members — her mom while she is a young girl, her brother on September 11th and now her father is nearing the end of his life. Cat finds out her brother may have been a father and she is determined to find the son he never got to know. Her quest for the young boy is emotional, but made messy by a secondary plot line about Cat’s love life that seems trite and moves the book away from a serious drama to something a little to light to be taken seriously.
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