A Family Daughter
Maile Meloy?s remarkable debut novel LIARS AND SAINTS described, with spare and sparkling realism, four generations of the Santerre family. In A FAMILY DAUGHTER, Meloy returns to the Santerres, but with a delicious twist: the first novel was, the reader discovers, actually written by a character in the second novel! In the hands of a less talented writer, this meta-fictional device could quickly become laden with showy precociousness, but Meloy remains focused on the intimate dramas of the characters? lives. With a deft ear for dialogue, a keen sense of humor, and a wonderful insight into the human psyche, Meloy tracks the parallel lives of Abby Santerre and her young uncle Jamie after their calamitous and incestuous affair. While her first novel showed a clear affinity with the short story, A FAMILY DAUGHTER feels more expansive, more operatic, and, ironically, less believable (Jamie falls in with a snobby socialite family that lives in Argentina and has adopted a Hungarian prostitute?s son). However, Meloy?s lively prose more than compensates for the occasional lapses into melodrama, and the resonance between her two novels produces an unexpected and delightful harmony. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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