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One of the most insightful novels about families to appear in recent years, "A Family Daughter" revisits the Santerre clan from Maile Meloy's highly acclaimed debut novel "Liars and Saints. " It opens in 1979, when seven-year-old Abby, the youngest member of the close-knit family, is trapped indoors with chicken pox during a heat wave. The events set in motion that summer span decades and continents -- irrevocably changing the lives of the Santerres and those around them.



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Maile Meloy

MAILE MELOY is the author of three novels, two story collections, a middle-grade trilogy, and a picture book. Her fiction has also appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review and Best American Short Stories, and on Selected Shorts and This American Life. She has received The Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Rosenthal Foundation Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.



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