Father's Day

Simon Van Booy

Father's Day
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Country
United States
Published
16 November 2016
Pages
386
ISBN
9781410494795

Father’s Day

Simon Van Booy

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 met a disabled felon, haunted by a violent past he can’t escape.

Moving between past and present, Father s Dayweaves together the story of Harvey s childhood on Long Island and her life as a young woman in Paris.Written in raw, spare prose that personifies the characters, this novel is the journeyof two people searching for a future in the ruin of their past.

Father’s Dayis a meditation on the quiet, sublime power of compassion, and the beauty of simple, everyday things abreakthrough work from one of our most gifted chroniclers of the human heart.

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