the two family house by lynda cohen loigman

A graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School, Loigman practiced trusts and estates law at a large Manhattan law firm for eight years, and was then a legal recruiter. Loigman, who lives in Chappaqua with her husband Bob (“my biggest advocate and Googler”) and children Ellie, 17, and Charlie, 13, did not set out to be a novelist. “It was a thrilling night!” From Idea to Manuscript

“I am so grateful for the tremendous community support I have received, both from the Chappaqua Library and our town residents,” Loigman said, after reading several passages from the book and answering attendees questions about its background. Moving and evocative, Lynda Cohen Loigman's debut novel The Two-Family House is a heart-wrenching, gripping multigenerational story, woven around the deepest of secrets.On March 8, 2016, surrounded by friends, family and admirers at the Chappaqua Library Theater, New Castle resident Lynda Cohen Loigman officially launched The Two-Family House, an engrossing family saga about two brothers and their families living in postwar Brooklyn that has drawn rave reviews for its compassion, thoughtfulness and complex, vivid character development from the likes of the Associated Press, Publisher’s Weekly, Bookreporter, Booklist Reviews, RT Book Reviews and the Jerusalem Post. Heartbreak wars with happiness and almost, but not quite, wins. One misguided choice one moment of tragedy. No one knows why, and no one can stop it. When the storm passes, life seems to return to normal but as the years progress, small cracks start to appear and the once deep friendship between the two women begins to unravel. Raising their families side by side, supporting one another, Rose and Helen share an impenetrable bond forged before and during that dramatic winter night.

The mothers are sisters by marriage: dutiful, quiet Rose, who wants nothing more than to please her difficult husband and warm, generous Helen, the exhausted mother of four rambunctious boys who seem to need her less and less each day. 'A novel you won't be able to put down.' -Diane Chamberlain, New York Times bestselling authorīrooklyn, 1947: In the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born, minutes apart.

The two family house by lynda cohen loigman