When devastating news shatters the life of six-year-old Harvey, she finds herself in the care of a veteran social worker, Wanda, and alone in the world save for one relative she has never metтАФa disabled felon, haunted by a violent past he can't escape.
Moving between past and present,┬аFatherтАЩs Day┬аweaves together the story of HarveyтАЩs childhood on Long Island and her life as a young woman in Paris.┬аWritten in raw, spare prose that personifies the characters,┬аthis novel is the journey┬аof two people searching for a future in the ruin of their past.
Father's Day┬аis a meditation on the quiet, sublime power of compassion, and the beauty of simple, everyday thingsтАФa┬аbreakthrough work from one of our most gifted chroniclers of the human heart.
Simon Van Booy is the author of two novels and two collections of short stories, including The Secret Lives of People in Love and Love Begins in Winter, which won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He is the editor of three philosophy books and has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, NPR, and the BBC. His work has been translated into fourteen languages. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.