Father's Day: A Novel

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 metamp;#8212;a disabled felon, haunted by a violent past he can't escape.

Moving between past and present,amp;nbsp;Fatheramp;#8217;s Dayamp;nbsp;weaves together the story of Harveyamp;#8217;s childhood on Long Island and her life as a young woman in Paris.amp;nbsp;Written in raw, spare prose that personifies the characters,amp;nbsp;this novel is the journeyamp;nbsp;of two people searching for a future in the ruin of their past.

Father's Dayamp;nbsp;is a meditation on the quiet, sublime power of compassion, and the beauty of simple, everyday thingsamp;#8212;aamp;nbsp;breakthrough work from one of our most gifted chroniclers of the human heart.