Review
From the book jacket: It's 1979, and
seven-year-old Abby, the youngest member of the close-knit Santerre
family, is trapped indoors with the chicken pox during a heat wave. The
events set in motion that summer will span decades and continents,
change the Santerres forever, and surprise and amaze anyone who loved
Meloy's
Liars and Saints.
A rich, full novel about passion and desire, fear and betrayal,
A
Family Daughter illuminates both the joys and complications of
contemporary life, and the relationship between truth and fiction. For
everyone who has yet to meet the Santerres, an unmatched pleasure
awaits.
Comment: A Family Daughter isn't so much a sequel to
Meloy's debut novel,
Liars and Saints, as it is a parallel story.
In
Liars and Saints Meloy...
Beyond the Book
About the author: Maile Meloy is the
author of the story collection
Half in Love
and the novels
Liars and Saints and
A
Family Daughter,. Her stories have been
published in
The New Yorker, and she has
received
The Paris Review's Aga Khan
Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, the
Rosenthal Foundation Award, and a Guggenheim
Fellowship. She lives in California.
About Meloy's first novel,
Liars and Saints: "This first novel
packs quite a punch. In less than 300 pages
Maile Meloy paints a picture of 50 years in the
life of one Californian family from World War II...
