Father's Day

By Simon Van Booy

Book Overview

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.

Moving between past and present, Father's Day 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.

Father's Day 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062408941
• ISBN13: 9780062408945
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.6"