A Family Daughter
It is 1979, and seven-year-old Abby, the youngest member of the close-knit Santerre family, is trapped indoors with chickenpox during a heat wave. The events of that summer will change her family's lives for ever. In A Family Daughter, Maile Meloy returns to the complicated world of the...
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It is 1979, and seven-year-old Abby, the youngest member of the close-knit Santerre family, is trapped indoors with chickenpox during a heat wave. The events of that summer will change her family's lives for ever. In A Family Daughter, Maile Meloy returns to the complicated world of the Santerres. This captivating story of an American family in crisis is told from the view of Abby, a young woman grieving for her father and rediscovering the family she always thought she knew. An engaging and insightful novel about the joys and complications of modern life, A Family Daughter is a delicious read. For everyone who has yet to meet the Santerres, an unmatched pleasure awaits.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780743277662 (074327766X)
Publish date: February 7th 2006
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Pages no: 325
Edition language: English
There are actually quite a few daughters who figure prominently in the story: Santerre family matriarch Yvette's daughters Margot and Clarissa, daughters-in-law Saffron and Katya, and especially Clarissa's daughter Abby, who is at the center of it all. The Santerre women were introduced in Maile Mel...
A sign of a good book: You start out warming to the book, but you grow to love the book more and more and more as you go along. That's the case for me with this book. I grew to love the characters so much that I did not want to get to the end. My favorite thing about this book (and, oddly, it's a th...
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