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A review by acsaper
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
3.0
I have found during virus times its more difficult for me to really sit and think about a book, and instead I'm just plowing through it for a distraction. Or, perhaps that's just how I felt in reading Ask Again, Yes. The story was always there, but I was never gripped, pulled in, or dying to know more.
Two NYPD rookies meet on the job and move out to the suburbs to being their idyllic 1950s (?) life. As neighbors, the families quickly diverge, yet, remain bonded through the years by their children - who, in no time at all, happen to fall in love.
The tale winds, but not so far, and never strays further than Queens in one direction and the Shore in the other. Grandchildren appear but at the center of it all are Peter and Kate, the two neighbor children around whom the story centers.
Love, loss, pain, forgiveness, change, tradition, trauma and family all have leading roles in the novel. That's about all I've got in me for now. It was, good.
Two NYPD rookies meet on the job and move out to the suburbs to being their idyllic 1950s (?) life. As neighbors, the families quickly diverge, yet, remain bonded through the years by their children - who, in no time at all, happen to fall in love.
The tale winds, but not so far, and never strays further than Queens in one direction and the Shore in the other. Grandchildren appear but at the center of it all are Peter and Kate, the two neighbor children around whom the story centers.
Love, loss, pain, forgiveness, change, tradition, trauma and family all have leading roles in the novel. That's about all I've got in me for now. It was, good.