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DAUGHTER
A stylish and emotional gut punch of a novel.
DAUGHTER by Claudia Dey. Jenna Johnson at FSG is publishing the book in the US, and Doubleday Canada's Kiara Kent is the editor here (Doubleday acquired rights to DAUGHTER and a second book in a six-figure pre-empt). Publication in North America is scheduled for Fall 2023 and we are currently out on submission in the UK/ANZ, hoping to find the perfect third English language publishing partner.
A stylish and emotional gut punch of a novel, DAUGHTER is about a tumultuous relationship between a woman, Mona, and her father. He is the author of a single bestselling novel inspired by one of his three daughterswho that is shifts with his moodsand has spent the rest of his writing life chasing the dragon of that early success. He is a master manipulator who left his wife to remarry an evil (possibly misunderstood) stepmother, and he habitually embroils them all in conflict while he deftly side-steps the debris. But when Mona suffers an unspeakable loss, he is also the only person who really understands her and gives her solace. Even though this is fundamentally a story about a deeply fraught father-daughter relationship, it is also a gorgeous and brilliantly-observed mediation on motherhood, what we inherit and what we might pass down, and how to reclaim our own identities within this cycle.
You may already be familiar with Claudia, whose previous novel, HEARTBREAKER, published in 2018, received widespread critical acclaim (including a starred review from Publishers Weekly and praise from Lauren Groff and Miriam Toews) and was translated into Italian by Edizioni Black Coffee. It was a Trillium Book Award finalist and was selected as a Paris Review Staff Pick, a Goop Book Club Pick, a Globe & Mail, Buzzfeed, and CBC Book of the Year. Claudia's plays have been produced internationally, and nominated for the Governor General's, Dora, and Trillium Book Awards. Her essays and interviews have been published in The Paris Review (Mothers as Makers of Death), McSweeney's, The Believer, Lit Hub, and Hazlitt. Based in Toronto, she is also co-founder and co-designer of the clothing label, Horses Atelier, and played the lead in the horror film, The Oxbow Cure, by Lisa Pictures.
A stylish and emotional gut punch of a novel, DAUGHTER is about a tumultuous relationship between a woman, Mona, and her father. He is the author of a single bestselling novel inspired by one of his three daughterswho that is shifts with his moodsand has spent the rest of his writing life chasing the dragon of that early success. He is a master manipulator who left his wife to remarry an evil (possibly misunderstood) stepmother, and he habitually embroils them all in conflict while he deftly side-steps the debris. But when Mona suffers an unspeakable loss, he is also the only person who really understands her and gives her solace. Even though this is fundamentally a story about a deeply fraught father-daughter relationship, it is also a gorgeous and brilliantly-observed mediation on motherhood, what we inherit and what we might pass down, and how to reclaim our own identities within this cycle.
You may already be familiar with Claudia, whose previous novel, HEARTBREAKER, published in 2018, received widespread critical acclaim (including a starred review from Publishers Weekly and praise from Lauren Groff and Miriam Toews) and was translated into Italian by Edizioni Black Coffee. It was a Trillium Book Award finalist and was selected as a Paris Review Staff Pick, a Goop Book Club Pick, a Globe & Mail, Buzzfeed, and CBC Book of the Year. Claudia's plays have been produced internationally, and nominated for the Governor General's, Dora, and Trillium Book Awards. Her essays and interviews have been published in The Paris Review (Mothers as Makers of Death), McSweeney's, The Believer, Lit Hub, and Hazlitt. Based in Toronto, she is also co-founder and co-designer of the clothing label, Horses Atelier, and played the lead in the horror film, The Oxbow Cure, by Lisa Pictures.
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