A lyrical and deeply affecting novel recounting the seven
days a father spends on the road with his daughter after
kidnapping her during a parental
visit.
Attending a New England
summer camp, young Eric Schroder-a first-generation East
German immigrant-adopts the last name Kennedy to more easily
fit in, a fateful white lie that will set him on an
improbable and ultimately tragic course.
SCHRODER relates the story of Eric's urgent escape
years later to Lake Champlain, Vermont, with his
six-year-old daughter, Meadow, in an attempt to outrun the
authorities amid a heated custody battle with his wife, who
will soon discover that her husband is not who he says he
is. From a correctional facility, Eric surveys the course of
his life to understand-and maybe even explain-his behavior:
the painful separation from his mother in childhood; a
harrowing escape to America with his taciturn father; a
romance that withered under a shadow of lies; and his
proudest moments and greatest regrets as a flawed but loving
father.
Alternately lovesick and ecstatic, Amity
Gaige's deftly imagined novel offers a profound meditation
on history and fatherhood, and the many identities we take
on in our lives--those we are born with and those we
construct for ourselves.
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