THE YEAR MY MOTHER CAME BACK

A love story. A ghost story. Alice's memoir is a contemporary tale that reaches back through the generations. This book will speak to anybody who has ever loved their mother, struggled with their mother, lost their mother, or dreamt of reconciling with their mother.

One day, Alice's brilliant, beautiful, unhappy mother Louise suddenly appears in her kitchen—thirty years after her death. A crisis in Alice's life brings Louise back in a flood of memories, after having buried thoughts about her for three decades. Not many women would view a medical crisis as a gift, but Alice needed to walk in her mother's shoes in order to understand her and forgive her, and rediscover her love for her. She opens the door to a woman who's long dead, faces wounds covered up long ago, and finds the answers to secrets long hidden. In this compelling story of mothers lost and found, Alice finds her mother and rediscovers herself as a mother, finally able to accept her own imperfections. Alice Eve Cohen is a writer and solo theatre artist. Her new memoir, The Year My Mother Came Back will be published by Algonquin Books in Feb, 2015. Her first memoir, What I Thought I Knew (Viking / Penguin) won the Elle's Lettres Grand Prix for Nonfiction; it was selected as one of Oprah Magazine's 25 Best Books of Summer and Salon's Best Books of the Year.