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.