A Must-Read: The New York Times, Elle, Literary Hub, The Millions, The Globe and Mail, and CBC
A Finalist for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
-[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 fled
