Father of the Rain

Father of the Rain (2010) by Lily King. The book is divided into three parts. In Part I, Daley Amory is 11 years old, and thus can't fully understand when her parents split apart and get a divorce. Constantly tugged at by her mother and her father, the little girl is unable to choose, because she has no favorite. This seminal event in her life colors all that follows, as she attempts, on and off through the years, to reconcile with her drunk, spiteful, impossible father after her mother's death. Told in the first person, this is a fine, compulsively readable novel about divorce and its effects on one woman's life. I'm glad I read it. Grade: A-