Description
"Van Booy's great triumph comes in using a family secret to underscore the message that family is as much a choice as a blood tie. Although any reader will find something to love here, someone who has benefited from a perfectly imperfect family will wear the widest smile. This little book with a big heart is suitable not just for Father's Day, but for any day." -- Shelf Awareness
When devastating news shatters the life of six-year-old Harvey, she finds herself in the care of a veteran social worker, Wanda, and alone in the world save for one relative she has never met--a disabled felon, haunted by a violent past he can't escape.
Moving between past and present, Father's Day weaves together the story of Harvey's childhood on Long Island and her life as a young woman in Paris. Written in raw, spare prose that personifies the characters, this novel is the journey of two people searching for a future in the ruin of their past.
Father's Day is a meditation on the quiet, sublime power of compassion, and the beauty of simple, everyday things--a breakthrough work from one of our most gifted chroniclers of the human heart.
Author: Simon Van Booy
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 04/25/2017
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780062408952
ISBN10: 006240895X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Family Life | General
- Fiction | Coming of Age