From the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls comes an eagerly anticipated story
collection exploring the dark corners of human experience. A thrilling new voice in American
fiction.-Jennifer Egan about The Girls An absentee father collects his son from boarding
school after a shocking act of violence. A nanny to a celebrity family hides out in Laurel
Canyon in the aftermath of a tabloid scandal. A young woman sells her underwear to strangers. A
notorious guest arrives at a placid not-quite rehab in the Southwest. In ten remarkable
stories Emma Cline portrays moments when the ordinary is disturbed when daily life buckles
revealing the perversity and violence pulsing under the surface. She explores characters
navigating the edge the limits of themselves and those around them: power dynamics in families
in relationships the distance between their true and false selves. They want connection but
what they provoke is often closer to self-sabotage. What are the costs of one's choices? Of the
moments when we act or fail to act? These complexities are at the heart of Daddy Emma Cline's
sharp-eyed illumination of the contrary impulses that animate our inner lives.
