The "beautifully written" (
The Washington Post
) first novel by Alice McDermott, National Book Award-winning author of
Charming Billy
and
Someone
.
Elizabeth Connelly, editor at a New York vanity press, sells the dream of publication (admittedly, to writers of questionable talent). Stories of true emotional depth rarely cross her desk. But when a young writer named Tupper Daniels walks in, bearing an unfinished novel, Elizabeth is drawn to both the novelist and his story--a lyrical tale about a man in love with more than one woman at once. Tupper's manuscript unlocks memories of her own secretive father, who himself may have been a bigamist. As Elizabeth and Tupper search for the perfect dénouement, their affair, too, approaches a most unexpected and poignant coda. A brilliant debut from one of our most celebrated authors,
A Bigamist's Daughter
is "a wise, sad, witty novel about men and women, God, hope, love, illusion, and fiction itself" (
Newsweek
).