?A riveting journey?funny, painful, absurd, and heartwarming. Alice?s mother comes fully to life in all her complexity, a woman of her times and ahead of her time. Alice?s own struggle to accept her imperfect self is a loving message to mothers who struggle to live life with grace. A beautiful book.??Julie Metz, New York Times bestselling author of Perfection ?Alice Cohen navigates what was a perfect storm of a year, a year when doubt, guilt, dread, illness and sorrow descended all at once on her and on her family. What she made of this year is a book so honest, so moving, and ultimately so wise, that it is a privilege to take the journey with her. The Year My Mother Came Back is a perfect book. I want to tell everyone, every mother, every daughter, to read it.? ? Abigail Thomas, author of A Three Dog Life and Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life ?Alice Eve Cohen?s warm, witty, wise memoir is an elixir of love. It captures the struggles of every woman who ever wanted to be a better mother or daughter. . . Read it and weep?and laugh?and love. But do read it!??Nancy Bachrach, author of The Center of the Universe: A Memoir