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A lyrical and deeply affecting novel recounting the seven days a father spends on the road with his daughter after kidnapping her during a parental visit Attending a New England summer camp young Eric Schroder-a first-generation East German immigrant-adopts the last name Kennedy to more easily fit in a fateful white lie that will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic courseSCHRODER relates the story of Erics urgent escape years later to Lake Champlain Vermont with his six-year-old daughter Meadow in an attempt to outrun the authorities amid a heated custody battle with his wife who will soon discover that her husband is not who he says he is From a correctional facility Eric surveys the course of his life to understand-and maybe even explain-his behavior the painful separation from his mother in childhood a harrowing escape to America with his taciturn father a romance that withered under a shadow of lies and his proudest moments and greatest regrets as a flawed but loving fatherAlternately lovesick and ecstatic Amity Gaiges deftly imagined novel offers a profound meditation on history and fatherhood and the many identities we take on in our lives--those we are born with and those we construct for ourselves.



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