In this week's edition of Endnotes, we take a look at Rebecca Kauffman's I'll Come to You (Counterpoint, Jan.), a family drama that takes place over the year 1995, as a grandfather deals with dementia. In its review, PW said, it draws "authentic and believable portraits of these flawed but decent people as they negotiate life’s upheavals."

Here's how the book came together:

Jack Shoemaker

Editor-at-Large, Counterpoint

“Although I’ve never heard Rebecca read her work aloud, I read her as if I have. Her voice is unmistakable. She writes with a warm, shimmering intimacy, and every sentence feels true, as if we are sitting at a small table over coffee. I love her voice, her sentences, her characters, and the worlds she creates book after book.”

Michelle Tessler

Partner, Tessler Literary Agency

“I’ve represented Rebecca since her first novel, Another Place You’ve Never Been, and it’s been a wonderful collaboration. I’ll Come to You struck me immediately as a nuanced study in how a year in the life of a family has impacts that are as surprising as they are familiar. Counterpoint has been a wonderful publisher for Rebecca.”

Nicole Caputo

Creative Director, Counterpoint

“All the covers I’ve designed for Rebecca have had a surprising twist: a mildly threatening element that creates tension contrasted with beautiful vintage chromolithographic artwork. The harmony created between seemingly disparate elements is representative of the familial dynamics in Rebecca’s novels. Our feral cat and bird represent an intimate portion of the book where we see hardness, softness, and questioning as a character brushes up against the unknowable.”

Rebecca Kauffman

Author

“After toiling for years on a book that wasn’t right and wasn’t improving, I wrote I’ll Come to You in a few months. The truly unsettling thing about this is that it’s the second time in a row it has happened; my fourth book followed nearly the exact same trajectory. Believe me, in neither case did it feel like a simple triumph. It felt like madness. The hopeful outlook I try to maintain is that the years spent on the baddies give rise to a necessary­—if unpleasant—extrication.”