Father's Day - A Novel

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.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Van Booy, Simon Van Booy
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780062408952
• ISBN: 978-0-06-240895-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Narrative theme: Coming of age, Relating to early adulthood, United States of America, USA, Anthologies: general, Plays, Playscripts, Science fiction: time travel, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: General, FICTION: Romance / Contemporary, DRAMA: American / General, DRAMA: Women Authors, FICTION: Family Life / Siblings, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Romance / New Adult, Modern and Contemporary romance, Literature / General Fiction