Van Booys 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 Fathers 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 meta disabled felon, haunted by a violent past he can’t escape.Moving between past and present, Fathers Dayweaves together the story of Harveys 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 journeyof two people searching for a future in the ruin of their past.Father’s Dayis a meditation on the quiet, sublime power of compassion, and the beauty of simple, everyday thingsabreakthrough work from one of our most gifted chroniclers of the human heart.
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