Father's Day

“Van Booy’s great triumph comes in using a family secret to underscore the message that family is as much a choice as a blood tie. Although any reader will find something to love here someone who has benefited from a perfectly imperfect family will wear the widest smile. This little book with a big heart is suitable not just for Father’s Day but for any day.” — Shelf AwarenessWhen 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 met—a disabled felon haunted by a violent past he can''t escape.Moving between past and present Father’s Day weaves together the story of Harvey’s childhood on Long Island and her life as a young woman in Paris. Written in raw spare prose that personifies the characters this novel is the journey of two people searching for a future in the ruin of their past.Father''s Day is a meditation on the quiet sublime power of compassion and the beauty of simple everyday things—a breakthrough work from one of our most gifted chroniclers of the human heart.