One of the most insightful novels about families to appear in recent years, "A Family Daughter" revisits the Santerre clan from Maile Meloy's highly acclaimed debut novel "Liars and Saints." It opens in 1979, when seven-year-old Abby, the youngest member of the close-knit family, is trapped indoors with chicken pox during a heat wave.
The events set in motion that summer span decades and continents -- irrevocably changing the lives of the Santerres and those around them.