A Family Daughter: A Novel - Softcover

Meloy, Maile

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743277678 ISBN 13: 9780743277679

Publisher: Scribner, 2007

Synopsis

One of the most insightful novels about families to appear in recent years, A Family Daughter revisits the Santerre clan from Maile Meloy's highly acclaimed debut novel Liars and Saints. It opens in 1979, when seven-year-old Abby, the youngest member of the close-knit family, is trapped indoors with chicken pox during a heat wave. The events set in motion that summer span decades and continents - irrevocably changing the lives of the Santerres and those around them.

About this title

Review:

"Fast-moving and compelling...ambitious and playful and clever."
-- The Washington Post

"The Santerre family...includes so many appealing personalities, with all the dreams, hopes, and foibles of people we have loved at one time or another."
-- Los Angeles Times

"Wise and astonishing."
-- The New Yorker

"A big book as well as a swift, slender, graceful one."
-- The New York Times

"A seductive, absorbing read."
-- The Philadelphia Inquirer

Book Description:

Liars and Saints was a Richard & Judy Summer Read, and shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Maile Meloy's brilliant new novel will be one of 2006's must-reads

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0743277678
• ISBN 13: 9780743277679
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336