Title: The rowing lesson
Description: Utterly convincing and vivid fictional portrait of a South African life. Pregnant with her first child, Betsy Klein is summoned from her home in the USA to her father's hospital bed in South Africa. Harold Klein is sensual, irascible, a passionately committed doctor, and a complex husband and father. As Betsy sits and waits for him to stir from his coma, she is compelled to imagine his life.
Subjects: Fathers and daughters, Terminally ill, Death, Americans, Family relationships, Fiction, Coma, Patients, Physicians, Roman, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, family life, Fathers and daughters, fiction
Places: South Africa