The Only True Genius in the Family

From the author of The Last Beach Bungalow: a portrait of a family-in all its heartbreaking complexity.. Though she lives in the shadow of her legendary landscape photographer father and is the mother of a painter whose career is about to take off Claire has carved out a practical existence as a commercial photographer. Her pictures may not be the stuff of genius but they've paid for a good life.. But when her father dies Claire loses faith in the work she has devoted her life to-and worse begins to feel jealous of her daughter's success. Then as she helps prepare a retrospective of her famous father's photographs Claire uncovers revelations about him that change everything she believes about herself as a mother a daughter and an artist...