Mort is so angry at being forced to be a part of the family business, that he takes his anger out on his wife, and blames her for only producing daughters. I have to say that the characters, with the exception of Judith and Natalie, and Helen to an extent, are unlikable. The families live in one house, one family has the upstairs and one family has the downstairs, and their lives are intertwined and full of joy and conflict. You have the brothers Mort and Abe, and their wives Rose and Helen, and also Judith, one of Rose’s daughters, and Natalie, Helen’s daughter. THE CHARACTERSĮach chapter of The Two-Family House is told from the POV of a different character. What follows is a tale of family drama and secrets. Mort and Rose have three girls, and Abe and Helen have four boys, when Rose and Helen each are pregnant and give birth on the same night. The Two-Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman is the story of two families, brothers Mort and Abe, and their wives, Rose and Helen. Review: Interesting tale of a family breakdown, but doesn’t really start clicking until the end. My copy came from: The library! And I read this book because it was my book club’s selection for the month of September.
Heartbreak wars with happiness and almost but not quite wins.įrom debut novelist Lynda Cohen Loigman comes The Two-Family House, a moving family saga filled with heart, emotion, longing, love, and mystery. One misguided choice one moment of tragedy.
No one knows why, and no one can stop it. They are sisters by marriage with an impenetrable bond forged before and during that dramatic night but as the years progress, small cracks start to appear and their once deep friendship begins to unravel.
Official Synopsis from Goodreads: Brooklyn, 1947: in the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born minutes apart to two women.
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