**"Haunting, incisive . . . King is brilliant." -- Elle
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**An absorbing, insightful story written in cool, polished prose right
to the last conflicted line." --Washington Post
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**"Spellbinding . . . 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
When eleven-year-old Daley Amory's mother leaves her father, Daley is
thrust into a chaotic adult world of competition, indulgence, and
manipulation. Unable to place her allegiance, she gently toes the
thickening line between her parents' incompatible worlds: the
increasingly liberal, socially committed realm of her mother, and the
conservative, liquor-soaked life of her father. But without her mother
there to keep him in line, Daley's father's basest impulses and quick
rage are unleashed, and Daley finds herself having to choose her own
survival over the father she still deeply loves.
As she grows into adulthood, Daley retreats from the New England
country-club culture that nourished her father's fears and addictions,
and attempts to live outside of his influence. Until he hits rock
bottom. Faced with the chance to free her father from sixty years worth
of dependency, Daley must decide whether repairing their badly broken
relationship is worth the risk of losing not only her professional
dreams, but the love of her life, Jonathan, who represents so much of
what Daley's father claims to hate, and who has given her so much of
what he could never provide.
A provocative and masterfully told story of one woman's life-long,
primal loyalty to her father, Father of the Rain is a spellbinding
journey into the emotional complexities, mercurial contours, and
magnetic pull of families.
