From the bestselling author of The Girls comes a brilliant” (The New York Times) story
collection exploring the dark corners of human experience.Daddy’s ten masterful provocative
stories confirm that Cline is a staggering talent.”—Esquire NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF
THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY 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.
