Kate Pulaski is a screenwriter who is washed up and has
just made a mess
of her marriage.
Kate is on a plane and finds out that her father, with
whom she has an
estranged relationship has committed suicide. She is
shocked and
confused, but otherwise not upset. She and her two
siblings, Elliot and Nell,
go to Atlanta and are reunited with their father's current
wife and daughter,
Sasha and Mindy, and his other three previous wives and
children. At the
beginning of REUNION, I didn't like Kate at all.
Over four days,everyone's secrets begin to emerge, she
learns
that she is similar to the man she hated, her father. The
four days are filled
with emotional turmoil and painful lessons, and discovery
and when all
is revealed, I began to understand Kate, why she acted the
way she did
and how she stopped hiding from herself. The more that she
stopped lying
to herself and started to challenge others, the more I
liked her. Elliot and
Nell have many different issues in their private lives
that spill over into this
reunion.
Hannah Pittard does a wonderful job of showing us that
difficult matters can make up a family and the chaotic
relationships that can
evolve between siblings. Although Kate is in her thirties
it was interesting
watching her change from a selfish woman to a more caring
and honest
person.
From the very beginning of REUNION, I was amazed at how
much I didn't
like the main character. Kate is constantly lying, she is
very immature, she
spends money without the thought of tomorrow, she is very
shrewd and
critical of others, and she hates her dad. So, why didn't
I want to stop
reading? I was obsessed on finding out what would become
of Kate.
Hannah Pittard is an amazing author and she hooked me
from the very
first page without me knowing it and I think that she can
do this for every
reader.
REUNION is an emotional journey that I was at first,
hesitant to take
because of what I knew of Kate at the beginning but I
found myself so
wrapped up in her self-exploration and courage to face the
truth that I could
not put REUNION down, I had to know what was going to
become of Kate.
Now I want to read more of Hannah Pittard. Be prepared
not to do
anything else once you start reading REUNION. Hannah
Pittard is going to
pull you right in and never let you go. Your time reading
is going to fly by
and you become emotionally invested in all of these
characters.
The author of the highly acclaimed The Fates Will Find
Their
Way returns with a novel about a far-flung family reunited
for one weekend by their father's death.
Five minutes before her flight is set to take off, Kate
Pulaski, failed screenwriter and newly failed wife with
scarcely a hundred dollars to her name, learns that her
estranged father has killed himself. More shocked than
saddened by the news, she gives in to her siblings'
request
that she join them, along with her many half-siblings and
most of her father's five former wives, in Atlanta, their
birthplace, for a final farewell.
Written with huge heart and bracing wit, REUNION takes
place
over the following four days, as family secrets are
revealed, personal foibles are exposed, and Kate-an
inveterate liar looking for a way to come clean-slowly
begins to acknowledge the overwhelming similarities
between
herself and the man she never thought she'd claim as an
influence, much less a father. Hannah Pittard's "engaging
and vigorous"* prose masterfully illuminates the problems
that can divide modern families—and the ties that prove
impossible to break.
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