num_pages: 336
description: One of the most insightful novels about families to appear in recent years, A Family Daughter revisits the Santerre clan from Maile Meloy's highly acclaimed debut novel Liars and Saints. It opens in 1979, when seven-year-old Abby, the youngest member of the close-knit family, is trapped indoors with chicken pox during a heat wave.The events set in motion that summer span decades and continents -- irrevocably changing the lives of the Santerres and those around them.
language: English
title: A Family Daughter
titlecomplete: A Family Daughter
genres: American, Chick Lit, Short Stories, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Family, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 1071
publisher: Scribner