num_pages: 325
description: 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 - and will change the Santerre's forever.A rich, full novel about passion and desire, fear and betrayal, A Family Daughter illuminates both the joys and complications of contemporary life, and the relationship between truth and fiction.
language: English
title: A Family Daughter : A Novel
titlecomplete: A Family Daughter : A Novel
genres: Fiction, Family, American, Short Stories, Chick Lit, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1072
publisher: Scribner