The two books are complete standalones, however, fans of her first book will be thrilled with the cameo. I was thrilled to see the character from The Yellow Bird Sings have a role in this book. She instilled humor and hope by portraying authentic friendships and an abundance of riddles peppered through the story between two of the characters. I loved Rosner’s quiet way of telling a story, her words chosen thoughtfully and her ability to create such longing and angst in her characters. Each of the characters are based on real stories of kids from WW2. As the war ends, families and Jewish organizations begin to search for these missing children in earnest, often uprooting them for new lives they learned to love. Whether they were stolen, given away, or don’t know how they got to where they were, these children acclimated to their circumstance. These children were separated from their parents during the war for various reasons and this story focuses on the resettling of them after the war.
Told from the POV of four characters, Roger, Ana, Oskar and Renata, was the perfect way to present the story. I can’t believe her sophomore novel was just as good as her debut from 2020, The Yellow Bird Sings. Besides the incredibly interesting plot, I wanted to recall the small nuances that made this story come alive. Although I rarely reread a book, I did reread this one before I wrote this review. Once We Were Home by Jennifer Rosner was an evocative and moving novel that kept me up ‘til the wee hours of morning to finish. Already nodded for a Netflix film, I think this may be the author’s best book to date. This book says a lot about introspection, finding what you really want to do with your life, learning what makes you happy, music, gambling, friendship, and motherhood. As they spend time together and apart, they both begin to realize what roles they played in their breakup and why it happened in the first place. Scotch has a good sense of creating witty and realistic humor.
At first, I thought this was going to be some sort of Freaky Friday or magical realism sort of book, but soon realized no magic was needed – this was just a romp through circumstance and memory while the exes tried to recall what happened.Īs they trek the snowy landscape of their college campus, the familiar buildings and bars bring back long-lost memories as well as laugh out loud moments while they try to unravel the night before. The story focuses on a mysterious night, one in which neither can remember how or why they woke up in Ezra’s dorm room bed, followed by the shocker of shocks – they both were adorning wedding rings. There were so many amazing flashbacks to music, dress, and college life that it took me back to my own college years, although those were in the eighties. That evening happens to be when Frankie and Ezra, our main protagonists, separately attend a wedding, after a brutal breakup upon graduation. The Rewind by Allison Winn Scotch was a fun ride through the early nineties and then a decade later on the eve of Y2K. Now Frankie and Ezra have to put aside old grievances in order to figure out what happened, what didn’t happen…and to ask themselves the most troubling question of all: what if they both got it wrong the first time around? But when they wake up in bed next to each other the following morning with Ezra’s grandmother’s diamond on Frankie’s finger, they have zero memory of how they got there–or about any of the events that transpired the night before. Everything is going to plan–they just have to avoid the chasm of emotions brought up when they inevitably come face to face.
Frankie’s on the rise as a music manager for the hottest bands of the late ’90s, and Ezra’s ready to propose to his girlfriend after the wedding. Ten years later, on the eve of the new millennium, they find themselves back on their snowy, picturesque New England campus together for the first time for the wedding of mutual friends. The Rewind by Allison Winn Scotch: When college sweethearts Frankie and Ezra broke up before graduation , they vowed to never speak to each other again.
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