“Draw Near to Me is a moving, eye-opening exploration of all the kinds of love and loyalty and loss that there is. Brafman embraces each character, and illuminates each life, revealing every secret, indelibly.” —Amy Bloom, author of In Love and I'll Be Right Here

"Draw Near to Me is a propulsive, incisive, superb examination of a family in crisis. Michelle Brafman's novel is a beautiful kaleidoscope of its rich, real characters, and with insight and clarity, shows how they grapple with the most difficult questions of betrayal and isolation, and also shows how they find each other again." —Karen E. Bender, author of The Words of Dr. L.

"As soon as I put down Michelle Brafman’s Swimming with Ghosts, I wanted to find out what happened next, particularly to Kristy Weinstein, whose compulsions had coaxed her across pretty much every uncrossable line. But the companion novel, Draw Near to Me, delivers so much more than an update on the unwise and unwell characters Brafman has made us care about. It shows how grace is a choice that can begin to heal even the deepest betrayals." —Melinda Henneberger, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist 

“I tore through this book! Should family secrets stay secret? How much are we each willing to forgive? Michelle Brafman handles a complicated, flawed family in Draw Near to Me with a masterful compassion and honesty. An astonishing tour de force!” —Mary Kay Zuravleff, author of American Ending and Man Alive!

“Draw Near to Me starts as a crackling domestic drama and deepens into something stranger, braver, and beautifully unexpected. Michelle Brafman has an uncanny talent for seeing right into the tenderest parts of a family—its addictions, its loyalties, its blind spots, its stubborn hope. This novel knocked me flat.” —Adrienne Brodeur, best-selling author of Little Monsters and Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me

“Can the ties that bind loosen and stretch without breaking? When the innumerable threads that tie a family together begin to unravel, is repair possible? How broken is too broken to fix? Michelle Brafman’s propulsive novel Draw Near to Me is a humane and hopeful story about the durability of love amid generational secrets, guilt, betrayal, and doubt; a warm-hearted, engrossing portrait of a troubled family struggling to navigate the mess that is life.” —Paula Whyman, author of Bad Naturalist and You May See a Stranger

"In this compelling and richly detailed follow-up to Swimming with Ghosts, Michelle Brafman dives even deeper into the thorny questions of love, loyalty, human frailty, and redemption. Each character is given a voice; each experience is depicted with empathy and insight. Brafman illuminates what ultimately connects us as human beings, and how each of us might find and follow a path to grace." —Tara Ison, author of At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf