Daughter
a novel
*INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER*
*Finalist for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction*
*A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year*
Named a Most Anticipated Book at The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, Elle Magazine, Literary Hub, The Millions, and the CBC.
“[A] darkly glittering tale. We are inside a howl.” —The New York Times Book Review
A searing and hypnotic tour de force about a woman, long caught in her charismatic father's web, who strives to make a life—and art—of her own.
To be loved by your father is to be loved by God.
So says Mona Dean--playwright, actress and daughter to a man famous for one great novel, and in fruitless pursuit of the next, whose needs and insecurities exert an inescapable pull and exact…