Daughter

A Must-Read: The New York Times, Elle, Literary Hub, The Millions, The Globe and Mail, and CBC "[A] darkly glittering tale . . . Beautiful and piercing." --The New York Times Book Review 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 wif