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by Maile Meloy

Author:

Maile Meloy

ISBN13:

978-0719566462

ISBN:

0719566460

Language:

English

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JOHN MURRAY; First edition (2006)

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1896 kb

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4.1

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Maile Meloy's debut novel, Liars and Saints, captured the hearts of readers and critics alike. Now Meloy returns with a novel even more dazzling and unexpected than her first. Brilliantly entertaining, A Family Daughter might also be the most insightful novel about families and love that you will read this year. 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

FREE shipping on qualifying offers. I love Meloy and thought her 2009 short story collection & Ways is the Only Way that I Want It' was one of the best books of that year.

FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Book by Meloy, Maile. I also loved her previous short stories & in Love' which was only a smidgen below the quality of & Ways' but & Family Daughter', though well written, felt self indulgent, as if Meloy used it to get things off her chest. There was a central theme that was horrifying and that felt pointless unless the point was to normalize such behavior. 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

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Maile Meloy’s debut novel, Liars and Saints, captured the hearts of readers and critics alike. A Family Daughter is a brilliantly entertaining, powerfully moving novel about families, love, and the desire to reimagine one’s own history. It’s 1979, and seven-year-old Abby, the youngest member of Maile Meloy’s debut novel, Liars and Saints, captured the hearts of readers and critics alike.

A mysterious apothecary. From a beloved, award-winning writer, the much-anticipated novel about what happens when two families go on a tropical vacation - and the children go missing. When Liv and Nora decide to take their families on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. 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.

Meloy returns to the Senterres, the Catholic California family full of piety, passion and secrets at the center of the earlier novel. This go-’round, the family’s passion and piety remain in place, but the secrets, and facts, have changed. The central character is now Yvette and Teddy Senterre’s granddaughter Abby. When Abby is barely seven, her self-centered, irresponsible mother Clarissa leaves Abby and Abby’s loving father Henry.

Alsalar

If you liked Liars and Saints from Maile Meloy or even "Both Ways is the Only Way.." then you are going to like this book A Family Daughter which is a derivative book of Liars and Saints. It doesn't pick up where Liars and Saints left off but it takes one of the key actors in the earlier books--Abby--and blows out her character in a much deeper way than in the first book. Personally, I would have liked to have seen Meloy do a derivative book on Jamie--maybe Meloy will read this review and think of doing it. In this book, we once again see the Santerre family in all its glory and warts. Abby who is the granddaughter is the narrator of this book and we learn more about her mother Clarissa who at best is an absentee mom. We aren't exposed as much to Yvette and Teddy from the standpoint of their deep religious beliefs as we are in book one but they definitely play a big role. We definitely get deeper into the incestuous relationship between Abby and Jamie which I thought was the most fascinating part of Liars and Saints. We even are exposed to a school counselor who helps them both work out their issues. Abby ends up writing a book that polarizes the family. It exposes in a fictional (but obvious) manner the secrets of the Santerre family and ends up creating a rift between certain family members. I really enjoyed this book. Not quite as much as Liars and Saints but definitely as a very solid accompaniment,. Ihihly recommend it to all Meloy fans.

Jeyn

This is the story of a girl growing up in a loving, caring, dysfunctional and intermittently Catholic family. Abby's mother is possibly the most damaged family member but definitely the least stable as a parent. Thankfully Abby has a responsible, loving father but then tragedy strikes and she's on her own....no worse, she has to parent her mom. She somehow gets through it and becomes a writer. In her first book Abby interweaves family fact and fiction leaving everyone debating what's real. I love Meloy and thought her 2009 short story collection `Both Ways is the Only Way that I Want It' was one of the best books of that year. I also loved her previous short stories `Half in Love' which was only a smidgen below the quality of `Both Ways' but `A Family Daughter', though well written, felt self indulgent, as if Meloy used it to get things off her chest. There was a central theme that was horrifying and that felt pointless unless the point was to normalize such behavior. I'm not against including unpleasant issues but not to make the ambiguity ok. There are some things it's not all right to be on the fence about.

I'm rating this book as a 3 but it's more like a 3.5. Meloy is wonderful and I think she's going to give us many great books in the coming years. If you were disappointed with this book please read some of her stories. Though more recent books share the similar theme of looking at the gray areas of life rather than seeing in only black and white she explores the shadows with more aplomb in her short stories.

Fenritaur

Get with it, people. Look past, beneath, and above the actual skin of these characters, and maybe then you'll realize the gem of a novel that has been placed into your palms. All of these negative reviews are most likely stemming from middle aged housewives who love to dip their eyes into the pages of Nick Sparks novels just to escape their bland and ever repetitive lives-and when the ink of this story brought them back to actual Reality, they were most likely unconsciously transformed into a nose-in-the-air position, filled with disgust and denial. A Family Daughter is pure pleasure, and groundbreaking for any style of reader or writer.

Maile, you go, girl.

VizoRRR

I was looking forward to reading this book by the sister of the Decemberists lead singer, but I could not finish it. I found it slow moving and the plot was convoluted. The characters did not seem to be fully developed so it was difficult to understand who they were which made it very difficult to relate to them on an emotional level.

Sadly, I cannot recommend this book.

Dianazius

A perfect book, written so well.......not too wordy, but it gets to the point. Let's you enter the family of another, and see how families act, agree, disagree, act in times of stress, etc.
I bought all of this authors books, after reading this.

Dusar

The reviews on this book were so positive that i was so looking forward to reading A Family Daughter. But, i was nothing short of disappointed... the first half kept me going, but the second half was silly and uninteresting. In a nutshell... don't waste your valuable reading time with this novel- it is sure to be flat and forgettable!

Wenyost

Too cheesy, risque in odd and uncomfortable ways, and tried too hard to be unexpected. Yawn and meh.

A sign of a good book: You start out warming to the book, but you grow to love the book more and more and more as you go along. That's the case for me with this book. I grew to love the characters so much that I did not want to get to the end. My favorite thing about this book (and, oddly, it's a thing that irritated me at first) is the author's way of telling a story, Hemingway-esque, very objectively, almost like Meloy is looking down on the whole story from above and just telling what she sees. What's true and what's made up in a book...this was a fun theme in the book. Abby was a fascinating character, but I also liked her uncle and Margot. I think there are probably a lot of us Margots among us readers.

No easy answers, no pat endings...Meloy perfectly reflects the ambiguity of our modern world. Wonderful book. I'm very happy to have read this one. It's definitely one for the reading groups who like to deal with psychological conflict.

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