About the Book: Father of the Rain
'Winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction
From Lily King, beloved author of Writers and Lovers, Father of the Rain is a
mesmerising novel about the complexity and power of familial love.
Gardiner Amorys life is reeling Nixon is being impeached, his wife is leaving
him and his worldview is rapidly becoming outdated. His daughter, Daley, has
spent her life negotiating her parents conflicting worlds: the liberal realm of
her mother and the conservative, liquor-soaked life of her father. But when the
pair divorces, Gardiners basest impulses are unleashed in a deluge, and