Father's Day

<p><strong>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. -- <em>Shelf Awareness</em></strong></p><p>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 met--a disabled felon haunted by a violent past he can't escape.</p><p>Moving between past and present <em>Father's Day</em> 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.</p><p><em>Father's Day</em> 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.</p>