Please e-mail me the answer, rather than posting it in the comments section. What's the title of Ferriss' memoir which is subtitled "The Misadventures of a Reluctant Debutante"? (Visit her website for the answer)Įmail your answer to FRIDAY FREEBIE in the e-mail subject line. If you'd like a chance at winning a copy of The Lost Daughter, all you have to do is answer this ridiculously easy question: But the truth is not what Brooke believes it to be. With her marriage-and her emotional equilibrium-at stake, Brooke must confront what she has been unwilling to face for so long. His reappearance now threatens the life she has so carefully constructed and fortified by denial. Only Alex knows the truth that drove them apart. For fifteen years Brooke has kept a shameful secret from everyone she loves. When Brooke's high school boyfriend, Alex-now divorced and mourning the death of his young son-unexpectedly resurfaces, Sean begins to suspect an affair. So her adamant refusal to have a second child confounds her husband, Sean. Novelist Francisco Goldman ( Say Her Name) called it "an achingly beautiful novel about marriage and love.the work of a master American realist, up there with Richard Yates." Here's the jacket copy:īrooke O'Connor-elegant, self-possessed, and kind-has a happy marriage and a deeply loved young daughter. The novel has just been published by Berkley Books to great acclaim. Thanks for supporting reviews.This week's book giveaway is The Lost Daughter by Lucy Ferriss ( read her "My First Time" story about rejections). If you choose to purchase the book through the above link, I may receive a small commission without you having to pay a cent more for your purchase. I was not compensated in way for this review. Thanks to Penguin Group for sending me a copy of this novel for the purpose of this review. To purchase a copy of this novel, click the photo below: You can also find Ferriss on Facebook, HERE and Twitter, HERE.
She has two strong sons and abiding passions for music, politics, travel, tennis, and wilderness. from Tufts University and currently lives with Don Moon in the Berkshires and in Connecticut, where she is Writer-in-Residence at Trinity College.
Many of her short fiction and essays have appeared most recently in the New York Times, Missouri Review, Shenandoah, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Georgia Review, and have received recognition from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Faulkner Society, the Fulbright Commission, and the George Bennett Fund, among others, Her novel THE LOST DAUGHTER (Berkley 2012) was a BOMC alternate selection and a national bestseller. She is the author of ten books, mostly fiction. Louis, Lucy Ferriss has lived on both coasts, in the middle, and abroad.
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