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Daughter, September 2023
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
September 2023
On Sale: September 12, 2023
Featuring: Mona Dean
272 pages
ISBN: 0374609705
EAN: 9780374609702
Kindle: B0BQGGV78R
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Women's Fiction Psychological
In Claudia Dey’s Daughter, a woman long
caught in her father's web strives to make a life—and
art—of her own.
To be loved by your father
is to be loved by God.
So says Mona
Dean—playwright, actress, and daughter of a man famous
for one great novel, a man whose needs and insecurities
exert an inescapable pull and exact an immeasurable toll on
the women of his family: Mona, her sister, her half sister,
their mothers. His infidelity destroyed Mona’s
childhood, setting her in opposition to a stepmother who,
though equally damaged, disdains her for being broken. Then,
just as Mona is settling into her life as an adult and a
fledgling artist, her father begins a new affair and takes
her into his confidence. Mona delights—painfully,
parasitically—in this attention. When he inevitably
confesses to his wife, Mona is cast as the agent of
disruption, punished for her father’s crimes and
ejected from the family.
Mona’s tenuous
stability is thrown into chaos. Only when she suffers an
incalculable loss—one far deeper and more defining
than family entanglements—can she begin supplanting
absent love with real love. Pushed to the precipice, she
must decide how she wants to live, what she most needs to
say, and the risks she will take to say it.
Claudia Dey chronicles our most intimate lives with
penetrating insight and devilish
humor. Daughter is an obsessive, blazing
examination of the forces that drive us to become, to
create, and to break free.
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