From the bestselling author of The Girls comes a "brilliant" (The
New York Times) story collection exploring the dark corners of human
experience.
"Daddy's ten masterful, provocative stories confirm that Cline is a
staggering talent."--Esquire
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
An absentee father collects his son from boarding school after a
shocking act of violence. A nanny to a celebrity family hides out in
Laurel Canyon in the aftermath of a tabloid scandal. A young woman sells
her underwear to strangers. A notorious guest arrives at a placid,
not-quite rehab in the Southwest.
In ten remarkable stories, Emma Cline portrays moments when the ordinary
is disturbed, when daily life buckles, revealing the perversity and
violence pulsing under the surface. She explores characters navigating
the edge, the limits of themselves and those around them: power dynamics
in families, in relationships, the distance between their true and false
selves. They want connection, but what they provoke is often closer to
self-sabotage. What are the costs of one's choices? Of the moments when
we act, or fail to act? These complexities are at the heart of Daddy,
Emma Cline's sharp-eyed illumination of the contrary impulses that
animate our inner lives.
