The Murderer's Daughters: A Novel

Lulu and Merrys childhood was never ideal but on the day before Lulus tenth birthday their father drives them into a nightmare. Hes always hungered for the love of the girls self-obsessed mother; after she throws him out their troubles turn deadly.. Lulu had been warned to never to let her father in but when he shows up drunk hes impossible to ignore. He bullies his way past Lulu who then listens in horror as her parents struggle. She runs for help but discovers upon her return that hes murdered her mother stabbed her five-year-old sister and tried unsuccessfully to kill himself.. Lulu and Merry are effectively orphaned by their mothers death and fathers imprisonment but the girls relatives refuse to care for them and abandon them to a terrifying group home. Even as they plot to be taken in by a well-to-do family they come to learn theyll never really belong anywhere or to anyone―that all they have to hold onto is each other. . For thirty years the sisters try to make sense of what happened. Their imprisoned father is a specter in both their lives shadowing every choice they make. One spends her life pretending hes dead while the other feels compelled by fear by duty to keep him close. Both dread the day his attempts to win parole may meet success.. A beautifully written compulsively readable debut Randy Susan Meyerss The Murderers Daughters is a testament to the power of family and the ties that bind us together and tear us apart.