{"product_id":"what-is-left-the-daughter","title":"What Is Left The Daughter","description":"\u003cp\u003eHoward Norman, widely regarded as one of this country’s finest novelists, returns to the mesmerizing fictional terrain of his major books—\u003ci\u003eThe Bird Artist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Museum Guard\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Haunting of L\u003c\/i\u003e—in this erotically charged and morally complex story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different bridges—the result of their separate involvements with the same compelling neighbor, a Halifax switchboard operator and aspiring actress. The suicides cause Wyatt to move to small-town Middle Economy to live with his uncle, aunt, and ravishing cousin Tilda. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSetting in motion the novel’s chain of life-altering passions and the wartime perfidy at its core is the arrival of the German student Hans Mohring, carrying only a satchel. Actual historical incidents—including a German U-boat’s sinking of the Nova Scotia–Newfoundland ferry \u003ci\u003eCaribou\u003c\/i\u003e, on which Aunt Constance Hillyer might or might not be traveling—lend intense narrative power to Norman’s uncannily layered story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWyatt’s account of the astonishing—not least to him— events leading up to his fathering of a beloved daughter spills out twenty-one years later. It’s a confession that speaks profoundly of the mysteries of human character in wartime and is directed, with both despair and hope, to an audience of one. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn utterly stirring novel. This is Howard Norman at his celebrated best.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Howard Norman","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":53150176641315,"sku":"9780547521824","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780547521824.jpg?v=1741148212","url":"https:\/\/epicreads.com\/products\/what-is-left-the-daughter","provider":"Epic Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}