Father of the Rain

Description

Your name is Daley Amory. Your parents are divorced. Your mother is building a new life; your father seeking solace in the drinks cabinet. At 18-years-old you finally escape his manipulative hold. You build a new life, fall in love, but one day a message reaches you that your father is alone and dying. Will you return to the messy scene of your childhood or embrace the future you have worked so hard to build? Your name is Daley Amory. This is your choice.

Lily King grew up in Manchester, Massachusetts. Lily's first novel, The Pleasing Hour (1999) won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and was a New York Times Notable Book and an alternate for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her second, The English Teacher, was a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year, a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year, and the winner of the Maine Fiction Award. Father of the Rain is her third novel. Lily is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship and a Whiting Award.

Father of the Rain is a big, powerful punch of a novel, a gripping epic about a father and daughter that plumbs the dark side of a family riven by addiction and mental illness. . . . There's something so raw and affecting about Daley's love for her damaged father that the book will linger in your mind long after you've finished it. * Entertainment Weekly * A brilliant exploration of the attraction of martyrdom, the intoxication of playing savior. . . . An absorbing, insightful story written in cool, polished prose right to the last conflicted line. * Washington Post * King brilliantly captures the gravitational pull of the past and the way it can eclipse the promise of the present. . . . You won't be able to stop reading this book, but when you do finally finish the last delicious page and look up, you will see families in a clearer and more forgiving way. * Vanity Fair * Luminous . . . Uplifting . . . Fresh, with vividly drawn characters . . . and a clear eye for the details of their singularly messed-up relationships. * O, the Oprah Magazine * King infuses soul into this tale of a family torn apart by abuse. * Marie Claire (Summer Reads) * King is a beautiful writer, with equally strong gifts for dialogue and internal monologue. Silently or aloud, her characters betray the inner tumult they conceal as they try to keep themselves together . . . demonstrate through their confusions that what we like to call coming-of-age is a process that doesn't always end. * Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review * You know that moment when the ingenue in the horror movie heads downstairs to check the radiator, and you're screaming, dumbfounded, at the screen? That's the sort of protective rage you feel for Daley Amory, the narrator of Lily King's novel Father of the Rain. . . . Haunting, incisive. * Elle * Lily King's breakout third novel, Father of the Rain, harrowingly evokes a daughter's fierce devotion to her magnetic WASP father, whose flair for cocktail-fueled self-destruction rivals anything out of Cheever. * Vogue *