Father's Day: American Literature About Families Waiting to Find Hope, Compassion, and Perfectly Imperfect Love

Father's Day: American Literature About Families Waiting to Find Hope, Compassion, and Perfectly Imperfect Love

<p>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.</p><p>Moving between past and present, <em>Father’s Day</em> 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.</p><p><em>Father's Day</em> 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.</p>