WMRA's February 2025 Books & Brews featured Rebecca Kauffman, discussing I'll Come To You.
Our conversation took place live at Pale Fire Brewing Co. in Harrisonburg.
WMRA's Books & Brews is made possible thanks to our series sponsor, Gaines Group Architects. The Gaines Group has offices in Charlottesville and Harrisonburg.
About the Book
A modern and classic story of family, I'll Come to You chronicles intersecting lives over the course of one year - 1995 - anchored by the anticipation and arrival of a child. With empathy, insight and humor, Kauffman explores overlapping narratives involving a couple whose struggle to become pregnant has both softened and hardened them in unexpected ways, a woman whose husband of forty years has left her for reasons he’s unwilling to share and the man who is now disastrously attempting to woo her, a couple in denial about a looming health crisis, and their son who is fumbling toward middle age and can’t stop lying. With heart and wit and courage, and through pain, these characters traverse territory that both challenges and defines the bonds of family.
About the Author
Rebecca Kauffman is the award-winning author of five novels: Another Place You’ve Never Been; The Gunners; The House On Fripp Island; Chorus; and the forthcoming work, I’ll Come to You. Her novels have been published in six languages. She lives with her family in Virginia.