Winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction
Gardiner Amoryâs life is reeling â Nixon is being impeached, his wife is leaving him and his worldview is rapidly becoming outdated. His daughter, Daley, has spent her life negotiating her parentsâ conflicting worlds: the liberal realm of her mother and the conservative, liquor-soaked life of her father. But when the pair divorces, Gardinerâs basest impulses are unleashed in a deluge, and the chasm between all of them widens.
As she reaches adulthood, Daley rejects her fatherâs prejudices and embarks on her own life â until Gardiner hits rock bottom. Returning home to help her father get sober, Daley risks everything sheâs found beyond him, including a chance at love, in an attempt to repair a trust that was broken long ago . . .
'A gripping epic about a father and daughter that plumbs the dark side of a family riven by addiction and mental illness' - Entertainment Weekly