The Two-Family House

By Lynda Cohen Loigman,

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Book description

Brooklyn, 1947: in the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born minutes apart to two women. 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…

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This book has everything a book club could ask for. Characters that you love, even when maybe you shouldn’t. Relationships that seem both familiar and endlessly fascinating. An epic dilemma that resonates and flourishes until the very end. It’ll definitely have you wondering, what would I do? At the end of the day, that question is all you really need for a lively book club discussion. 

A beautifully written family saga spanning decades, The Two-Family House, Cohen Loigman’s debut novel, is about brothers Mort and Abe along with their wives and children who occupy a two-family house in Brooklyn. It’s also about one major secret that further and inextricably links the two families and will ultimately work to tear them apart. You will feel so many feelings while reading this book and won’t be able to put it down.

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