Haunting, incisive . . . King is brilliant.
Haunting, spellbinding, and impossible to put down. Lily King’s Elle-praised novel follows Daley Amory through the wreckage of her parents’ divorce — and the impossible choice she faces years later when her father hits rock bottom.
A piercing story of family, loyalty, and love.
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“Haunting, incisive . . . King is brilliant.” — Elle
“Spellbinding . . . You won’t be able to stop reading this book, but when you do finally finish the last delicious page and look up, you will see families in a clearer and more forgiving way.” — Vanity Fair
Some novels stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page. This is one of them.
When eleven-year-old Daley Amory’s mother leaves her father, Daley is thrust into a chaotic adult world of competition, indulgence, and manipulation. She tiptoes the thickening line between her parents’ incompatible worlds — her mother’s increasingly liberal, socially committed life on one side, and her father’s conservative, liquor-soaked existence on the other. Without her mother to steady him, her father’s basest impulses come roaring to the surface, and Daley must choose her own survival over the man she still loves.
Years later, just as Daley is building a life of her own — a career, a future with Jonathan, the love of her life — her father hits rock bottom. And she’s faced with an impossible question: is saving him worth losing everything she’s worked for?
Lily King writes with the kind of cool, polished prose the Washington Post called “absorbing, insightful . . . right to the last conflicted line.” A piercing exploration of family loyalty, addiction, and the magnetic pull of the people who shaped us.
A perfect companion for a salty afternoon by the cove — or a long, quiet evening in your favorite chair.
Haunting, incisive . . . King is brilliant.
Spellbinding . . . You won't be able to stop reading this book, but when you do finally finish the last delicious page and look up, you will see families in a clearer and more forgiving way.
Absorbing, insightful . . . right to the last conflicted line.
A bracing, brilliant novel of family dysfunction... King writes about her hard-drinking, narcissistic father with the unflinching gimlet eye of a daughter who has finally found peace.
Lily King's beautifully written third novel chronicles in tender, telling detail the relationship of a daughter to her impossible father... King has written a stunning novel.
Winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction.
King's masterful portrait of an alcoholic and his enabling daughter is harrowing in its honesty... A powerful, perceptive look at the lifelong impact of an unhealthy parental bond.
King's prose is so smooth, her characters so well-drawn, that readers will be drawn into Daley's painful but ultimately uplifting story.
| Weight | 0.79 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 5.50 × 1.00 × 8.00 in |
| Book Author | Lily King |
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