A Must-Read The New York Times, Elle, Literary Hub, The Millions, The Globe and Mail, and Cbc A Finalist for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction A darkly glittering tale Beautiful and piercing. The New York Times Book Review In Claudia Dey's Daughter, a woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life and art of her own. To be loved by your father is to be loved by God. So says Mona Dean playwright, actress, and daughter of a man famous for one great novel, a man whose needs and insecurities exert an inescapable pull and exact an immeasurable toll on the women of his family Mona, her sister, her half-sister, their mothers. His infidelity destroyed Mona's childhood, setting her in opposition to a stepmother who, though equally damaged, disdains her for being broken. Then, just as Mona is settling into her life as an adult and a fledgling artist, her father begins a new affair and takes her into his confidence. Mona delights painfully, parasitically in this attention. When he inevitably confesses to his wife, Mona is cast as the agent of disruption, punished for her father's crimes and ejected from the family. Mona's tenuous stability is thrown into chaos. Only when she suffers an incalculable loss one far deeper and more defining than