A lyrical and deeply affecting novel recounting the seven days a
father spends on the road with his daughter after kidnapping her
during a parental visit.
Attending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder-a
first-generation East German immigrant-adopts the last name Kennedy
to more easily fit in, a fateful white lie that will set him on an
improbable and ultimately tragic course.
SCHRODER relates the story of Eric's urgent escape years later to
Lake Champlain, Vermont, with his six-year-old daughter, Meadow, in
an attempt to outrun the authorities amid a heated custody battle
with his wife, who will soon discover that her husband is not who
he says he is. From a correctional facility, Eric surveys the
course of his life to understand-and maybe even explain-his
behavior: the painful separation from his mother in childhood; a
harrowing escape to America with his taciturn father; a romance
that withered under a shadow of lies; and his proudest moments and
greatest regrets as a flawed but loving father.
Alternately lovesick and ecstatic, Amity Gaige's deftly imagined
novel offers a profound meditation on history and fatherhood, and
the many identities we take on in our lives--those we are born with
and those we construct for ourselves.
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