If you loved Fly Away for women clawing through wreckage, Ask Again, Yes by excavates the same brutal terrain.
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- Multi-gen wounds reopened & slowly stitched
- Mental illness handled w/ unflinching tenderness
- Suburban secrets explode across decades
- Forgiveness earned, not given—watch them crawl
If Fly Away broke you open with its portrait of women clawing through their own wreckage, Ask Again, Yes will finish the job. Mary Beth Keane excavates the same suburban terrain—two families, decades of silence, and the kind of mental health crisis that detonates everything you thought you knew about forgiveness. This is multi-generational damage rendered with surgical precision, where mothers and daughters collide, lovers refuse to let go, and redemption isn't handed out—it's earned in blood and years.
Keane understands that the most unforgivable acts often live next door, not in headlines. She writes broken women and the men who orbit them with the same unflinching tenderness Hannah reserves for her heroines who refuse to stay down.
Redemption isn't handed out—it's earned in blood and years.
What Readers Are Saying
"My favorite of 2019...a remarkable and gifted writer...an unforgettable story!" — j e w e l s, Goodreads
"At the smaller level, the way Keane puts her finger on the minute and mundane acts that come to be lives made together (in the 'This is Water' sense) is extremely satisfying and heartwarming." — fishfishfish, Reddit
"I didn't want to put this book down...it hurt my heart but also, filled me with hope." — MarilynW, Goodreads
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