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Name: Father of the rain
Author: Lily King

Gardiner Amory, a New England WASP, begins to feel his world unravel as political turmoil looms, his wife departs, and his beliefs grow obsolete. Daley, caught between her mother’s liberal ideals and her father’s conservative, alcohol‑ridden life, negotiates the clash of these worlds for eleven years. As she matures, she rejects the narrow beliefs that have shaped her father’s fears and prejudices and forges her own path, while Gardiner struggles to regain his footing.

First publish date: 2010

Genre: Psychological Fiction/Psychological Drama

Authors: Lily King

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