num_pages: 354
description: Prize-winning author Lily King's masterful new novel spans three decades of a volatile relationship between a frighteningly charismatic alcoholic father and the daughter who cannot help but love him.Gardener Amory is a New England WASP who is beginning to feel the cracks in his empire. Nixon is about to be impeached his wife is leaving him and his worldview is rapidly becoming outdated. His daughter Daley has spent the first eleven years of her life carefully negotiating her parents conflicting worlds: the liberal socially committed realm of her mother and the conservative liquor-soaked life of her father. But when they divorce and Gardiners basest impulses are unleashed the chasm quickly widens and Daley feels herself stretched thinly across it.As she grows into adulthood Daley rejects the narrow world that nourished her fathers fears and prejudices and embarks on her own separate lifeuntil he hits rock bottom. Lured back home by the dream of getting her father sober and rebuilding a trust that was broken years ago Daley risks losing everything she has found beyond him including her new love Jonathan who represents so much of what Daleys father claims to hate and who has given her so much of what he could never provide.Intimate in its detail yet epic in range Father of the Rain is a raw compelling journey into the emotional complexities mercurial contours and magnetic pull of family. It is also the stunning portrait of a deeply complex man and his daughters fierce primal attachment to him.
language: English
title: Father of the Rain
publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press