Daughter A Novel Claudia Dey by Claudia Dey 9780374609702, 9780374609719, 0374609705, 0374609713 instant download after payment.

To be loved by your father is to be loved by God. 

So says Mona Dean—playwright, actress, & daughter to a man famous for one great novel, whose needs & insecurities exert an inescapable pull & exact an immeasurable toll on the women of his family: Mona, her sister, her half-sister, their mothers. His infidelity destroyed Mona’s childhood, setting her in opposition to a stepmother who, though equally damaged, disdains her for being broken. Then, just as Mona is settling into her life as an adult & a fledgling artist, he begins a new affair & takes her into his confidence. Mona delights—painfully, parasitically—in this attention. When he inevitably confesses to his wife, Mona is cast as the agent of disruption, punished for her father’s crimes & ejected from the family. 

Mona’s tenuous stability is thrown into chaos. Only when she suffers an incalculable loss—one far deeper & more defining than family entanglements—can she begin supplanting absent love with real love. Pushed to the precipice, she must decide how she wants to live, what she most needs to say, & the risks she will take to say it. 

Claudia Dey chronicles our most intimate lives with penetrating insight & devilish humor. Daughter is an obsessive, blazing examination of the forces that drive us to become, to create, & to break free.

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Claudia Dey’s most recent novel, Heartbreaker, was a Northern Lit & Trillium Book Award finalist. It was named a best book of the year by multiple publications & is being adapted for television. Her plays have been produced internationally & nominated for the Governor General’s, Dora Mavor Moore, & Trillium Book Awards. Dey has worked as a film actress, a guest artist at the National Theatre School, & an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto.