Title: After the sucker punch
Description: They buried her father at noon, at five she found his journals --and that's when she discovered that he thought she was a failure. Every child wants to know her father loves her, and Tessa Curzio --thirty-six, emerging writer, ex-rocker, lapsed Catholic, defected Scientologist, and fourth in a family of eight complicated people-- is no exception.-Backcover.
Subjects: Fathers and daughters, Fiction, Fathers, Death, Adult children of dysfunctional families, Man-woman relationships, Families, Domestic fiction
Places: Chicago (Ill.), Illinois, Chicago