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Schroder

By Amity Gaige

Schroder Contemporary literature

Schroder

By Amity Gaige

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
2013-10-08
Publication Date:
2013-10-08
Publisher:
Twelve
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1455512125
ISBN13:
9781455512126
Weight:
405 g
Height:
133 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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