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.
