I'll Come to You

By: Rebecca Kauffman

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

A joyful and tender drama of one “family so richly drawn, so deep and complex, that it contains the whole world” (Emma Straub), from beloved author Rebecca Kauffman
A modern story of family, I’ll Come to You chronicles intersecting lives over the course of one year—1995—anchored by the anticipation and arrival of a child.
With empathy, insight, and humor, Rebecca Kauffman explores overlapping narratives involving a couple whose struggle to become pregnant has both softened and hardened them; a woman whose husband of forty years has left her for reasons he’s unwilling to share and the man who is now disastrously attempting to woo her; and a couple in denial about a looming health crisis as well as their son who is fumbling toward middle age and can’t stop lying. Ultimately, these storylines converge into a dramatic and harrowing turn of events. With heart, wit, and courage, and through pain, these characters traverse territory that both challenges and defines the bonds of family.

“I’ll Come to You is a deft, engrossing novel, full of subtle humor and compassion. In scenes as precise and intimate as lighted windows on a dark street, Rebecca Kauffman explores those everyday encounters and accidents that can loom so large they overwhelm a life.”—Sofia Samatar, author of Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life

©2024 Rebecca Kauffman (P)2025 Recorded Books

I kept hoping it would finally become interesting

This book sounds like the part in writing a novel where the characters are identified on the storyboard and the author is fleshing out their character traits. Over and over and over and over——it’s like floating endlessly in body-temperature water with no sound. The marathon got the female characters sounds the same/-/all the male characters sound the same. The ending is about as interesting as a piece of gum with all the flavor chewed out.

Just love these characters

Another easy 5 star rating for Rebecca Kauffman's,
I'll Come to You." Rebecca Kauffman who is one of the best writers of character driven fiction, IMO. This is a story about one family and extended relatives that takes place over the course of one year - New Year's to Christmas. Nothing extraordinary happens. It's just life - marriage, divorce, aging parents with Alzheimer's and new baby on the way. But the characters are so vividly drawn you become attached to them and by the end it is impossible not to have that feel good smile on your face when one or all of them finally find a bit of joy. There is no huge, climactic wave in this novel- just a family trying to forge through some of life's roughest waters. I highly recommend for fans of literary fiction who enjoy a simple but satisfying story that is perfectly told.

Beautiful writing and outstanding narration

Gorgeous multi layered story. Looking forward to more from this author. Don’t hesitate…this one worth the credit.

Thoroughly enjoyable

I loved the book and the characters were real people. But there was no real ending, which I didn’t like.

No Thanks

The character development was good. The narration was great. That said, I have enough stress and depression in my own life as a middle-aged single mother, I don't need to add more. 😅. Reading is my escape, and this book was so well done in terms of realistic, relatable, family drama and stress that it actually depressed me and stressed me out, reminding me of the s*** I've been through and escaped from in my own life. This actually probably says a lot for the author being able to do such a good job, but It's not something I enjoyed because it was just too much. I don't like it in my own life and I sure the heck don't need to read more about it from other people fictional or not.