A Family Daughter

A new novel about families, love, and the desire to re-imagine one’s own history.

It’s 1979, and seven-year-old Abby, the youngest member of the close-knit Santerre family, is trapped indoors with the chicken pox during a heat wave. The events set in motion that summer will span decades and continents, as the Santerres become entangled with an aging French playboy, a young eastern European prostitute, a spoiled heiress, and her ailing, jet-set mother.

“A thoroughly original and undeniably brilliant companion piece to Meloy’s debut novel, Liars and Saints.... Each novel stands alone; together they pack a seismic wallop.”
—Kirkus (starred review)

“In evanescent scenes distinguished by clean, wry prose, Meloy observes the Santerre family, whom readers met in 2003’s Liars and Saints, from a crafty new angle.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Riveting and engrossing, Meloy’s tale of a family struggling with guilt and forgiveness spans decades and crosses continents, proving her status as one of the best literary observers of contemporary American life.” —Booklist (starred review)

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